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BETTER PLANET THAN WE HAVE EVER KNOWN: 1/4 A Dog's World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World without Humans, by Jessica Pierce and Marc Bekoff

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🗓️ 27 August 2023

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BETTER PLANET THAN WE HAVE EVER KNOWN: 1/4 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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0:00.0

This is CBS, I Am The World, I'm John Bachelor with Jessica Pearson Mark Backhoff.

0:09.8

A dog's world is their new presentation of imaginess of thought experiment, imagining

0:15.2

the lives of dogs and world without humans.

0:17.9

So we've gone through the home dogs, the free-ranging dogs and the feral dogs.

0:22.9

We've made the transition.

0:24.2

We're now in a world where there's no memory, first generation, second generation, third

0:29.4

generation of human beings, homo sapiens.

0:32.6

The dogs are impact behavior, then they've found a style that suits them in the niche where

0:40.2

they live, desert to forests, to high latitudes low, and we're dealing with some truths that

0:49.2

we can imagine for the future.

0:52.1

And Jessica, one of the things that I was most impressed by is that there is no future

0:57.8

dog.

0:58.8

There is a universal dog.

1:00.8

We've talked about its characteristics, but I'm keen on its psychology on what it would

1:07.6

imagine the world to be.

1:09.6

Does it see itself as a, as a, as top of the food chain, these dogs hunting in packs?

1:16.9

Because my observation is that wolves are in their environment, certainly dominant.

1:23.8

Will dogs in the future see themselves as dominant, Jessica?

1:28.0

That's a good question.

1:30.8

I'm not sure.

1:33.0

I think it could go either way.

1:35.4

I think my intuitive answer to your question is dogs are just going to see themselves as

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