{"id":6145,"date":"2024-05-08T17:08:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T17:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=6145"},"modified":"2024-05-08T17:08:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T17:08:18","slug":"mans-best-friend-foxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2024\/05\/08\/mans-best-friend-foxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Man\u2019s Best Friend, Foxes?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/04\/11\/americas\/fox-pets-hunter-gatherer-burial-scn\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Patagonia, Argentina a grave site was excavated by researchers where they found human remains with not a dog, but a fox buried next to him. The remains are noted to be over 1,500 years old, humans and dogs have had a long history but when analyzing this connection it seems a group of hunter-gatherers found their bond with an extinct fox species Dusicyon avus. In an in depth analysis of the DNA it was found that the fox had eaten the same things that this group of humans did and suggested that the fox was tame and friendly with humans. There is a growing pile of evidence that shows humans have been companions with different species and distinct animals, all across the world they have found individually tamed foxes with human companions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scientists believe that the reason this fox wanted to stay around humans was because of its carnivorous diet and the mutual relationship between these two species. The foxes will help humans hunt\/kill while the humans process the food and provide important resources that are crucial to the fox\u2019s survival. Another big question in this conversation is what led to these fox\u2019s extinction. One reasonable theory explains that possibly the foxes migrated to Europe and interbreed with other dogs, causing their DNA to peter out eventually. Another theory is that other dogs in the region outcompeted the foxes for food and natural resources and also could have carried and transmitted diseases that could be fatal to the foxes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scientifically, with the new evidence from around the globe it\u2019s been determined that keeping an animal, not for food or work but just for companionship this shows that that behavior is human nature. Evolution is an interesting discussion that defines us as humans, and every other species on this earth, knowing that it’s possible to be kind and compassionate with other species is such an important part of earth and nature and life itself. Although this news report does not have much effect on international relations, the science behind it is truly making history and learning about our environment and the regions in which humans first started becoming hunter-gatherers is crucial to the history of this world, and important to explain and define the way we as a society interact with each other. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/04\/11\/americas\/fox-pets-hunter-gatherer-burial-scn\/index.html In Patagonia, Argentina a grave site was excavated by researchers where they found human remains with not a dog, but a fox buried next to him. The remains are noted to be over 1,500 years old, humans and dogs have had a long history but when analyzing this connection it seems a group of hunter-gatherers found their bond with… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":254,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6146,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145\/revisions\/6146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}