What is a dog?
Coppinger, Raymond,
What is a dog? Raymond Coppinger and Lorna Coppinger ; foreword by Alan M. Beck. - xvii, 257 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
About dogs. What is a dog? ; The world is full of village dogs ; Why do village dogs all look alike? ; What is a niche? -- Behavioral ecology. Behavioral ecology of dogs ; The cost of building a dog ; The cost of feeding a dog ; The cost of reproduction ; Avoiding hazards and their costs -- That special relationship between people and dogs. The symbiotic relationship ; Dogs adopt people (and other animals) ; People adopt dogs ; People breed special dogs ; Breed genes stray into the village dog population ; Dog genes stray back into the wild -- Summary. Where and why are all these dogs? ; What should we do, if anything, with all the dogs?
9780226127941 (cloth : alk. paper)
2015031906
Dogs.
Dogs--Behavior.
Human-animal relationships.
SF422.5 / .C66 2016
636.7
What is a dog? Raymond Coppinger and Lorna Coppinger ; foreword by Alan M. Beck. - xvii, 257 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
About dogs. What is a dog? ; The world is full of village dogs ; Why do village dogs all look alike? ; What is a niche? -- Behavioral ecology. Behavioral ecology of dogs ; The cost of building a dog ; The cost of feeding a dog ; The cost of reproduction ; Avoiding hazards and their costs -- That special relationship between people and dogs. The symbiotic relationship ; Dogs adopt people (and other animals) ; People adopt dogs ; People breed special dogs ; Breed genes stray into the village dog population ; Dog genes stray back into the wild -- Summary. Where and why are all these dogs? ; What should we do, if anything, with all the dogs?
9780226127941 (cloth : alk. paper)
2015031906
Dogs.
Dogs--Behavior.
Human-animal relationships.
SF422.5 / .C66 2016
636.7