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Stephen Budiansky holds that virtually everything previously written about dogs is either wrong or misguided. Instead he maintains that to understand the true nature of dogs we need to stop interpreting their behaviour in the human terms of loyalty and betrayal. The truth is far more complex and surprising. The Dog Genome Project is currently laying the groundwork for identifying the genetic basis of why our dogs behave in the way they do. Other research investigates canine intelligence, and some remarkable experiments reveal what dogs can and cannot see. Budiansky brings together the disciplines of behavioural science, genetics, neuroscience and archaeology to show us how wrong we have been about man¿s best friend.… (altro)
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If some advertiser or political consultant could figure out just what it is in human nature that makes us so ready to believe that dogs are loyal, trustworthy, selfless, loving. courageous, noble, and obedient, he could retire to his own island in the Caribbean in about a week with what he'd make peddling that secret.
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[Proto-dogs] were not hirelings, or slaves, or even invited guests; they were party crashers who just wouldn't leave. (p.24)
Human, their habitations, and their behavior are of course part of what defines this niche that village dogs so successfully occupy. But not only is there no intent on the part of the villagers to "tame" these animals; there is no intent on their part to even have them around. Yet there they are, and tame they are. (pp. 25-26)
[D]og society has fragmented from a group of fiefdoms to a rather more democratic polity, or perhaps more accurately a world in which every citizen is a slightly delusional lordling. But they are a happy band of lunatics. Each imagines himself a potentate, and is untroubled by his neighbors' imagining the same. The are like an insane asylum full of inmates, all of whom believe that they are Napoleon. Every once in a while they ask the guards if they can get together and have a Napoleon convention. (p.64)
Foxhounds and beagles have a reputation for being rather untrainable in household settings and heedless toward their owners, but that is probably not because they see themselves as top dog; rather they don't particularly give a damn about anybody being top dog. (p.74)
Every time a dog barks at the mailman who intrudes on what the dog imagines to be his territory, the mailman subsequently buggers off, mission accomplished. Because dogs so freely apply barks to novel situations, they can convince themselves that their barking does all sorts of wonders, and so keep inventing new reasons to do it. (p.97)
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Let's face it: If dogs truly were human, they would be jerks. As dogs, they are wonderful.
Stephen Budiansky holds that virtually everything previously written about dogs is either wrong or misguided. Instead he maintains that to understand the true nature of dogs we need to stop interpreting their behaviour in the human terms of loyalty and betrayal. The truth is far more complex and surprising. The Dog Genome Project is currently laying the groundwork for identifying the genetic basis of why our dogs behave in the way they do. Other research investigates canine intelligence, and some remarkable experiments reveal what dogs can and cannot see. Budiansky brings together the disciplines of behavioural science, genetics, neuroscience and archaeology to show us how wrong we have been about man¿s best friend.
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