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3/4 A Dog's World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World without Humans, by Jessica Pierce and Marc Bekoff

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🗓️ 31 December 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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3/4 A Dog's World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World without Humans,
by Jessica Pierce and Marc Bekoff

https://www.amazon.com/Dogs-World-Imagining-without-Humans/dp/0691196184

What would happen to dogs if humans simply disappeared? Would dogs be able to survive on their own without us? A Dog’s World imagines a posthuman future for dogs, revealing how dogs would survive―and possibly even thrive―and explaining how this new and revolutionary perspective can guide how we interact with dogs now.

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0:33.3

This is CBS I In The World. I'm John Bachelor.

0:36.5

I'm speaking with Jessica Pierce and Mark Beckoff.

0:39.7

Their new book is A Dog's World, Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World Without Humans.

0:44.6

Without humans, that's important here.

0:46.7

There's going to be a transition and then soon there will be dogs around the planet

0:52.8

without humans feeding them or bothering them or abusing them or expecting them to look a certain way.

0:59.2

They'll have longer snouts likely, they'll run likely, they'll be a medium weight,

1:05.4

unless there's a necessity for heavy weights, they'll move in packs.

1:09.6

But reproduction.

1:11.7

Jessica, I come to you because one of the striking details about dogs today is

1:16.8

the paternal member, the parent father, does not, is not encouraged to stick around or doesn't stick around.

1:26.1

And you and Markers are speculating, imagining that there would likely be a change when dogs are

1:33.4

alone. So it wouldn't just be the maternal, it would be the paternal as well. Did I read that

1:38.5

correctly, Jessica?

1:40.4

You did. The way dogs, particularly pet dogs or dogs who are highly controlled by humans,

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