SHOOTING ANY PUP IS UNACCEPTABLE. 1/4 A Dog's World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World without Humans, by Jessica Pierce and Marc Bekoff
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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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 | Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island? |
| 0:03.8 | Jane Gaskin did exactly that, |
| 0:06.2 | trading in the family home to begin a new life in the tropics. |
| 0:09.9 | But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise, |
| 0:17.8 | the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. |
| 0:23.0 | Wish you were here. |
| 0:24.0 | Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever you listen to podcasts. This is a |
| 0:38.8 | 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, |
| 0:44.8 | imagining the lives of dogs and a world without humans. |
| 0:47.9 | So we've gone through the home dogs, the free-ranging dogs and the feral dogs. We're made the transition. We're now in a world |
| 0:55.3 | where there's no memory, first generation, second generation, third generation of |
| 1:00.2 | human beings, homo sapiens. The dogs are in packed behavior. Then they've found a |
| 1:07.3 | 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 |
| 1:19.6 | imagine for the future. |
| 1:22.1 | And Jessica, one of the things that I was most impressed by is that |
| 1:26.6 | there is no future dog. There is a universal dog. We've talked about its |
| 1:31.7 | characteristics, but I'm keen on its psychology on what |
| 1:37.0 | 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 |
| 1:46.9 | my observation is that wolves are in their environment certainly dominant. |
| 1:53.8 | Will dogs in the future see themselves as dominant, |
| 1:57.0 | Jessica? |
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