A Dogs World, Marc Bekoff
A Dogs World, Marc Bekoff
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A Dog's World
Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World without Humans

Author: Marc Bekoff, Jessica Pierce

Narrator: Karen White

Unabridged: 6 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/26/2021


Synopsis

From two of the world's leading authorities on dogs, an imaginative journey into a future of dogs without people

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.

Drawing on biology, ecology, and the latest findings on the lives and behavior of dogs and their wild relatives, Jessica Pierce and Marc Bekoff—two of today's most innovative thinkers about dogs—explore who dogs might become without direct human intervention into breeding, arranged playdates at the dog park, regular feedings, and veterinary care. Pierce and Bekoff show how dogs are quick learners who are highly adaptable and opportunistic, and they offer compelling evidence that dogs already do survive on their own—and could do so in a world without us.

Challenging the notion that dogs would be helpless without their human counterparts, A Dog's World enables us to understand these independent and remarkably intelligent animals on their own terms.

About Marc Bekoff

Marc Bekoff is professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has published more than thirty books, is a former Guggenheim Fellow, and was awarded the Exemplar Award from the Animal Behavior Society for long-term significant contributions to the field of animal behavior.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Eileen

I listened to the audiobook and the narrator was very flat which compounded the clinical style of the writing. There are definitely interesting bits but there's a lot of repetition and missed opportunities to capture the reader's imagination.......more

Goodreads review by Kathryn

Full transparency: My husband I I have been breeding Bearded Collies for almost 20 years, and have been happy to help preserve the strong herding instinct, strong athletic ability, strong human-partnering, strong other-animal management capabilities, and strong executive problem-solving and agency-a......more

Goodreads review by Jane

You definitely have to love dogs to make it through some pretty deep musings into how generations of dogs might survive, in an imagined post-human era. At least, I hope it's just imagined. Along the way, you learn alot about genetics and evolution, and how truly quickly behaviors and traits get sent......more