Videos Featuring Our Animal Ambassadors

We met the very cute and very bizarre result of an almost 60-year-long experiment: they're foxes that have been specially bred for their dog-like friendliness toward people. We do a little behavior research of our own, and discover what scientists continue to learn from the world's most famous experiment in domestication.

Outfoxing the wild: How Russian domesticated foxes could save lives

By Maya Trabulsi / KPBS Evening Edition Anchor Contributors: Roland Lizarondo / Video Journalist

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Amy and Dave Bassett Featured on Atlas Obscura’s Podcast “Caring for Canids: Spend a day hanging out with domesticated Russian foxes at a California conservation center.”

IN THIS EPISODE OF THE ATLAS OBSCURA PODCAST, we visit the Judith A. Basset Canid Education and Conservation Center, where a California couple has dedicated their lives to showing folks that we have even more best friends than previously thought.

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PLEASE READ: Unfortunately my editing software screwed me over and deleted one of the titles before I uploaded this, so the first fox that Dave brings in at 2:43 is named Maksa, and she's a domesticated fox!