Companion Animal Psychology Book Club August 2017
The book of the month is How to Tame a Fox by Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut.
By Zazie Todd, PhD
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By Zazie Todd, PhD
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The Companion Animal Psychology Book Club book for August 2017 is How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution
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From the inside cover,
To whet your appetite, you can read my interview with Dr. Lee Dugatkin.
Are you reading too? Leave a comment below with your thoughts on the book.
.From the inside cover,
"Most accounts of the natural evolution of wolves place it over a span of about 15,000 years, but within a decade, Belyaev and Trut's fox breeding experiments had resulted in puppy-like foxes with piebald spots and curly tails. Along with these physical changes came genetic and behavioural changes, as well. The foxes were bred using selection criteria for tameness, and with each generation, they became increasingly interested in human companionship. Trut has been there the whole time and has been the lead scientist on this work since Belyaev's death in 1985, and with Lee Dugatkin, biologist and science writer, she tells the story of the adventure, science, politics and love behind it all."
To whet your appetite, you can read my interview with Dr. Lee Dugatkin.
Are you reading too? Leave a comment below with your thoughts on the book.
Zazie Todd, PhD, is the award-winning author of Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy and Purr: The Science of Making Your Cat Happy. She is the creator of the popular blog, Companion Animal Psychology, writes The Pawsitive Post premium newsletter, and also has a column at Psychology Today. Todd lives in Maple Ridge, BC, with her husband, one dog, and two cats.
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