What is a dog? Raymond Coppinger and Lorna Coppinger ; foreword by Alan M. Beck.
Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016Description: xvii, 257 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780226127941 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 636.7 23
- SF422.5 .C66 2016
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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?
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