Raccoons are showing early signs of domestication. CBC Kids News contributor Manny explains why researchers are studying the ...
The domestication of dogs began at least 17,000 years ago, marking the first major interspecies relationship in human history ...
The research was based on something called the Neural Crest Domestication Syndrome (NCDS) hypothesis, which describes traits ...
A new study has shown that Raccoons are showing early signs of domestication. The University of Arkansas found that urban raccoons have smaller snouts, a sign of domestication syndrome.
If raccoons are wild animals, why are they so darn cute? If that’s a question you’ve ever asked yourself while looking at a picture of the furry urban dwellers with their beady eyes and tiny paws, you ...
Though dogs are so close genetically to wolves that many taxonomists consider them to be a subspecies, most people wouldn’t let a wolf lick their hand as readily as a Shih Tzu. When animals are ...
"Normally you think of domestication as something that happens at the hands of humans," said Brian Hare, a Duke University evolutionary anthropologist and co-author of a bonobo research review ...