Resources and Further Information
For All Ages
Wild Foxes as House Pets? ABC Nightline.
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/wild-foxes-housepets-18760822
A quick, but thorough summary of domestic foxes, past and
present.
Featuring Animals
www.featuringanimals.com
Want your own pet fox? Visit this website to find out how to get one.
Volodins: Bioacoustic Group Homepage
www.bioacoustica.org/index_eng.html
Click “Mammals Sound Gallery,” and then “Carnivores.” On this page you will find the
sounds of the red fox.
Fox Behavior
cbsu.tc.cornell.edu/ccgr/behaviour/Fox_Behavior.htm
This website includes videos of fox behaviour, and information about fox DNA.
YouTube Channel for Anya
www.youtube.com/user/BlondeHusky?feature=watch
This is the YouTube channel for Anya, the first pet fox in North America. “Anya vs.
Cockroach” is super cute!
Adapted from Fox Talk: How Some Very Special Animals Helped Scientists Understand Communication.
© L. E. Carmichael, 2013 | www.lecarmichael.com
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Duke Canine Cognition Center
evolutionaryanthropology.duke.edu/research/dogs
This website has information on Brian Hare’s research on canids and communication. Find
out how your dog can join experiments!
For Adult Readers
"Taming the Wild" by Evan Ratliff (National Geographic)
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/03/taming-wild-animals/ratliff-text
A good introduction for general readers, with amazing photos.
"Early Canid Domestication: The Farm-Fox Experiment" by Lyudmila Trut (American
Scientist)
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/page2/early-canid-domestication-the-farm-foxexperiment
This article is a bit more technical, but still accessible for general readers.
Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods. The Genius of Dogs. Plume, 2013.
For general audiences, by scientists whose work is featured in Fox Talk.
Genetics and the Behavior of Domestic Animals. 2nd ed. Eds. Temple Grandin and Mark J.
Deesing. Academic Press, 2013.
Written for scientists, this textbook contains a chapter on genetics of domestic foxes.
Adapted from Fox Talk: How Some Very Special Animals Helped Scientists Understand Communication.
© L. E. Carmichael, 2013 | www.lecarmichael.com
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