#BritishCarnivoreProject

Looking for cozy reading over winter break? Check out Story 4, entitled “The Christmas Fox”, from our new online nature booklet (for readers both young and young at heart)! 🦊🌃🎄❄️📖 #BritishCarnivoreProject Download for free below ⬇️

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Are foxes becoming domesticated? Videos of friendly, gentle foxes approaching humans, seemingly wanting to play, are going viral on TikTok. But just because a species is sociable doesn't necessarily make it domesticated.

Are cities domesticating #urban #foxes? Pleased to share this interview with #NationalGeographic stemming from our on-going research at the #BritishCarnivoreProject 🦊 🧠 🌃

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Looking for something #spooky to read this October? 🎃 🍂

Check out Story 3 of our free online #nature booklet for young readers, entitled The Mysterious Bin Phantom! 👻 🗑️ 🦊 #BritishCarnivoreProject

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Time in the city: Exploration and problem-solving behaviours reveal long-term urban adaptation in wild red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) Urbanisation is one of the most important forms of human-driven landscape change, creating novel situations in which some species thrive. Animals' willingness to touch, explore, and solve novel challe...

Excited to share our latest preprint from the #BritishCarnivoreProject, showing #exploratory diversity and behavioural #innovation in #wild red #foxes may emerge after long-term #urban exposure across many decades. 🦊🧠🧩🌃

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Experiencing the wild: red fox encounters are related to stronger nature connectedness, not anxiety, in people Frequent and positive wildlife experiences can strengthen people’s physical and mental connection with nature, potentially improving public health and pro-environmental behaviors. Red foxes are the...

Excited to share our latest paper from our on-going #BritishCarnivoreProject, showing that encounters with wild red #foxes could be an important gateway to broader #nature connectedness in people, particularly in cities. 🦊🍃🏙️ Link here: doi.org/10.1080/1087...

Thrilled to share this article in #TheGeographer covering our research at the #BritishCarnivoreProject, reaching >20,000 global readership plus a link to our free #nature booklet for young readers, here: t.co/RUV3M832Hf 🦊🧠🌃

Biological Sciences Review 2025-09-01 - Hodder Education Magazines

Thrilled our article made the front cover of the #educational magazine Biological Sciences Review by Hachette Learning 🦊🧠🧩🌃 #BritishCarnivoreProject @dylantj.bsky.social

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Our free #nature booklet for young readers, Urban Tails, has six stories - each covering a different season of the year. Be sure to read this month's story for August! Over 1,500 downloads and counting! 🦊🏙️🍃🌳 #BritishCarnivoreProject
Link here: www.blakemorton.co.uk/download/129...

Spatial distribution of human-wildlife interactions predicts coexistence with a global urban carnivore, the red fox Despite growing recognition that spatial factors such as urbanisation and geographic region shape human-wildlife interactions, few studies have examined - on a large geographic scale - how urbanisatio...

Excited to share our latest preprint from the #BritishCarnivoreProject, showing that the spatial distribution of #human-wildlife interactions predicts #coexistence with a global #urban #carnivore, the red fox 🦊 🌃. @kristyadaway.bsky.social @cds-york.bsky.social

Link here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Over 1,100 downloads in less than a week! Be sure to get a #free copy of our recent #nature booklet for young readers, covering #stories and #educational materials inspired by our work at the #BritishCarnivoreProject 🦊🌃🌳🍃

Link here: www.blakemorton.co.uk/download/129...

🚨Please circulate🚨 The #BritishCarnivoreProject has a #free booklet, entitled Urban Tails, to help young people (ages 9-14) engage with #nature. It includes #stories, #outdoor activities, and other fun #educational materials. 🦊🏙️🌳🍃Download here: www.blakemorton.co.uk/download/129...

Can’t wait to see what the local #foxes are up to in this part of #Scotland 🦊🧠🧩🌃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #BritishCarnivoreProject @kokosutter.bsky.social

Fieldwork in #Scotland

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#BritishCarnivoreProject

Shout out to @kristyadaway.bsky.social for presenting one of our latest papers from the #BritishCarnivoreProject! 🦊🧩🧠🌃 Thank you @mammalsociety.bsky.social for hosting another great March conference!

Link to our paper, here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Spring #fieldwork is greeted by carpets of #flowers in the home of #woodland #critters 🦊🦡🧩🧠 #BritishCarnivoreProject

Congrats to @dylantj.bsky.social on his first first-author poster, covering some of his #PhD research from our on-going #BritishCarnivoreProject! Thanks @asab.org for a fantastic
spring conference!

#ECRresearch #PhDLife #ASABSpring2025 @uniofhull.bsky.social 🦊🧠🧩

Dr Blake Morton | Animal Behaviourist

Interested in the #biodiversity crisis and how it links to #animal and #human #psychology? Check out my research group's website for updates on our latest work! 🦊🦡🧠🧩🌍 Link here: www.blakemorton.co.uk

#BritishCarnivoreProject @uniofhull.bsky.social

Happy #EarthDay from the #BritishCarnivoreProject 🦊🦡🧠🧩🌍

Image of call for applicants for funded PhD researching are we making urban wildlife sick? Contact Prof Carl Soulsbury csoulsbury@lincoln.ac.uk or Dr Blake Morton b.morton@hull.ac.uk for more information.

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We're looking for #applicants for a fully-funded #PhD on the #welfare impacts of #urbanisation on #wild #fox and #hedgehog #cognition and #health with me, @cds_york and Simon Clegg. Deadline 15th Sept, details below. 🦊🦔🧩🧠🏙️ #BritishCarnivoreProject