This is their new presentation

This is CBS Eye on the World.

I'm John Bachelor with Jessica Pierce and Mark Beckoff.

A dog's world is their new presentation of imagine, this is a thought experiment,

imagining the lives of dogs and world without humans. So we've gone through the home

dogs, the free-ranging dogs, and the feral dogs. We are made the transition. We're now in a world

where there's no memory, first generation, second generation, third generation of human beings,

Homo sapiens. The dogs are in packed behavior. Then they've found a

style that suits them in the niche where they live, desert to forests, to high latitudes, and we're dealing with some truths that we can

imagine for the future.

And Jessica, one of the things that I was most impressed by is that

there is no future dog. There is a universal dog. We've talked about its

characteristics, but I'm keen on its psychology on what it would

imagine the world to be. Does it see itself as a as a as a as top of the food chain these dogs hunting in packs because

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

Will dogs in the future see themselves as dominant,

Jessica?

That's a good question.

I'm not sure. I think it could go either way. I think my intuitive answer to your question is

dogs are just going to see themselves as a sort of fluid part of their ecosystem, that they don't have this sense of the sort of meta place in the world the way we might imagine them to be.

They will just be who they are

and do what they need to do to get by. Mark, I come to you with the wild animal in dogs.

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