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DOGS ARE EXTREMELY SMART AND ENDLESSLY ADAPTABLE. 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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John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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DOGS ARE EXTREMELY SMART AND ENDLESSLY ADAPTABLE.   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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This is CBS I in the world. I'm John Bachelor.

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I'm speaking with Jessica Pierce and Mark Beckoff.

0:38.0

Their new book is A Dogs World,

0:40.0

Imagining the lives of dogs and a world without humans, without humans. Without humans. That's important here. There's going to

0:46.1

be a transition and then soon there will be dogs around the planet without humans feeding them or bothering them or

0:54.4

abusing them or expecting them to look a certain way. They'll have longer snouts

0:59.6

likely, they'll run likely, they'll be of medium weight unless there's a necessity for

1:06.8

heavy weights they'll move in packs but reproduction Jessica I come to you because one of the striking details about dogs today is the

1:16.0

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

1:26.0

Mark are speculating imagining that there would likely be a change when dogs are alone so it wouldn't just be the maternal

1:35.0

it would be the paternal as well did I read that correctly Jessica you did

1:40.0

in the way dogs, particularly pet dogs or dogs who are, you know, highly

1:49.2

controlled by humans, you know, we hijack their the reproductive process in various ways and one of the ways

1:57.7

in which we do that is taking puppies away at the, what we consider the perfect age for puppy acquisition, you know, eight weeks or so.

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