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Introducing Fox Laughter (originally posted July 1st, 2020 on Substack)
The laughter we hear from domesticated foxes is our own. Svetlana Gogoleva, a vocal researcher in the decades-long Russian study on breeding and taming foxes into pets, theorizes that the foxes learned to mimic our expression of happiness in order to keep our attention. They have become “adept at pleasing