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Of the world’s dogs, less than two hundred million are pets, living with humans who provide food, shelter, squeaky toys, and fashionable sweaters. But roaming the planet are five times as many dogs who are their own masters—neighborhood dogs, dump dogs, mountain dogs. They are dogs, not companions, and these dogs, like pigeons or squirrels, are highly adapted scavengers who have evolved to fit particular niches in the vicinity of humans. In What Is a Dog? experts on dog behavior Raymond and Lorna Coppinger present an eye-opening analysis of the evolution and adaptations of these unleashed dogs and what they can reveal about the species as a whole.
Exploring the natural history of these animals, the Coppingers explain how the village dogs of Vietnam, India, Africa, and Mexico are strikingly similar. These feral dogs, argue the Coppingers, are in fact the truly archetypal dogs, nearly uniform in size and shape and incredibly self-sufficient. Drawing on nearly five decades of research, they show how dogs actually domesticated themselves in order to become such efficient scavengers of human refuse. The Coppingers also examine the behavioral characteristics that enable dogs to live successfully and to reproduce, unconstrained by humans, in environments that we ordinarily do not think of as dog friendly.
Providing a fascinating exploration of what it actually means—genetically and behaviorally—to be a dog, What Is a Dog? will undoubtedly change the way any beagle or bulldog owner will reflect on their four-legged friend.
- Sales Rank: #311840 in Books
- Published on: 2016-04-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.00" w x 6.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 272 pages
Review
“There are about a billion dogs on Earth, according to some estimates. The other 750 million don’t have flea collars. And they certainly don’t have humans who take them for walks and pick up their feces. They are called village dogs, street dogs and free-breeding dogs, among other things, and they haunt the garbage dumps and neighborhoods of most of the world. In their new book, What Is a Dog?, Raymond and Lorna Coppinger argue that if you really want to understand the nature of dogs, you need to know these other animals. The vast majority are not strays or lost pets, the Coppingers say, but rather superbly adapted scavengers—the closest living things to the dogs that first emerged thousands of years ago.”
� (New York Times)
“The dog is a shape that has evolved to a new niche that was created when people switched from hunting and gathering to growing grain. The waste products of that activity created a food supply that supports village dogs. So, according to the Coppingers, a dog is a kind of canid that has evolved to co-exist with humans — as a pet, a worker or a scavenger (or, in some cases, a combination of all three). Once they’ve spelt it out, it all seems fairly obvious. However, I never thought it through before, and now I see dogs in an entirely different light. Far from being a shameless stooge, Canis familiaris is actually a highly sophisticated scrounger. Seems man’s best friend is a lot smarter than we all imagined.”
� (Spectator)
“From their decades of research, the Coppingers have given us yet another epic book about dogs. The Coppingers take a unique and intensive look at the biology and population genetics of Canis familiaris, the niche that dogs occupy, and the problems that they face cohabitating with man. A must read for anyone really interested in knowing this animal that many call ‘man’s best friend’!” (Ken McCort, owner and operator of Four Paws training center)
“If you thought you knew what a dog was, better check this book out. The Coppingers explore the domestic dog in relation to its wild relatives in a way only these authors can.� You’ll visit such places as Istanbul, Mexico City, South Africa, and Baffin Island and also learn about such non-dogs as pigeons, vultures, codfish, and hummingbirds. Didn’t know about the dog’s ecological niche?� Its behavioral ecology?� Its symbiotic relationships? The Coppingers will fill you in and forever make you more appreciative of your pet’s complexity.” (L. David Mech, coauthor of Wolves on the Hunt)
“Dogs are an immensely popular subject, and hundreds of books have been written on every aspect of their biology and relationships with humans. So, it is hard to believe that anything new could be said, but this book proves that there might be much more to their science than we currently know. The Coppingers’ new book is deeply innovative, and it challenges, with remarkable clarity and compelling examples, the established ‘dogmas’ of the origin of dogs and their dependence on humans. It is beautifully written and rich with original perspectives. There is no doubt that this book will force us to rethink our relationship with dogs.” (Luigi Boitani, editor of Wolves: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation)
“In What Is a Dog?, the follow-up volume to their thought-provoking 2001 book Dogs: A New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior, and Evolution, biologist team Raymond and Laura Coppinger continue to turn re-evaluative insights on these deceptively familiar creatures. The question that makes up the title of their new book is by no means rhetorical. . . .The Coppingers make a convincing case that goes well beyond the standard paleolithic-man-tames-wolf-cubs scenario presented in every textbook in the world about the phylogeny of dogs. Their study looks at “the pervasive dogs of the world” with fresh eyes.”
� (Open Letters Monthly)
About the Author
Raymond Coppinger is professor emeritus of biology at Hampshire College. Lorna Coppinger is a biologist and science writer. Their books together include Dogs: A New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior, and Evolution, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Great question. Tedious, tendentious, tiresome answer.
By D. Bier
What is a dog? As the opening lines of the book tell us, it's a really good question, one which the authors infuriatingly refuse to even try to answer for vast sections of this book. The book (especially the opening) is dense and tedious, chockfull of tendentious rhetorical questions, pompous throat clearing, pointless academic hedging (meant to emphasize how very sophisticated they are, not like those rubes who simply say what they mean), and constant allusions to tangential issues that are never explored or returned to.
I believe that the authors really did intend to write a book about their (actually quite interesting) field research on wild dogs and what it reveals about the nature and history of the dog, but they lacked the discipline (or a sufficiently brutal editor) to cut the self-indulgent lard out of it. Prepare to slog through long, tiresome, mind-numbing sections about things that have only a tenuous connection to the subject matter. For instance, Chapter 2 is one unconscionably long discussion of how many dogs there are on earth, written in the most roundabout way possible, including pointless digressions about hypothetical implausibly precise estimates. The entire chapter appears to be nothing more than an excuse to get some more self-citations to the authors' population studies.
The whole chapter could be summed up as: "It's hard to know how many dogs there are, but it's probably about one billion. This means that dogs currently outnumber all jackals, wolves, coyotes, and dingoes combined by 20 to 1. In addition, the vast majority of dogs (probably 85 percent or more) are not domesticated or otherwise under human reproductive control."
But it's a good example of how poorly written the whole book is: the authors appear to be simply incapable of saying anything in a painless and straightforward fashion, and then, where it is necessary to advance the overall argument, explore and explain the complexities. If you're going to read it to pick the meat off its monster-y bones, I recommend aggressive skimming.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Fascinating and insightful
By Michael A. Ganz
Loved this book. The authors present a a unique perspective on dog behavior, the evolution of dogs, and how dogs domesticated humans as opposed to us controlling the fate of dogs. Written in an easy going and concise manner, this book makes me look at my own dogs in particular and all canines in general in a totally different light. Highly recommend.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
The authors’ observations of free-roaming village and third world city garbage dump foraging dogs
By michael w. fox
What is a Dog? By Raymond and Lorna Coppinger, University of Chicago Press, 2016, 257 pages with index, $30.00
I am dismayed that this reputable publisher (which published my doctoral dissertation Integrative Development of Brain and Behavior in the Dog and other scholarly texts about dogs have put this one out. The title is a giveaway with the “What” rather than the “Who” about indigenous/natural/aboriginal/landrace dogs. The authors’ observations of free-roaming village and third world city garbage dump foraging dogs, and the plethora of tangential reference citations that provide no deeper understanding or appreciation of the nature of these dogs, objectifies them. I find this objectionable, having studied and lived with these landraces from Africa and India. This book is an affront to the species and a waste of trees.
There is nothing documenting the symbiotic benefits of aboriginal dogs to indigenous peoples, no details about the nature and spirit of these dogs or of their sensibilities, protectiveness and intelligence---traits that benefit the human community. Rather, their observations, cast in a Darwinian perspective, give a false impression of scientific authority, but to what end? They regard the hard life of village dogs as their “paradise” and state that injuries from fights over a bitch in heat rarely cause injury. Yet even a small bite can mean a slow death from flesh-eating maggot fly infestation. They assert that these dogs, unlike wild canids who range far to hunt and bring food in their stomachs which is regurgitated for their cubs, are lacking this aspect of maternal care. But they have little need to do so since the pups around weaning time are close to food sources, and indeed, on occasion do regurgitate.
They confuse symbiosis with commensalism (eating off the same table, page 133) which was a catch question for my students of animal behavior in my classes at Washington University, St. Louis. I trust that the students at Hampshire College, where co-author Raymond Coppinger is emeritus professor of biology, are now better informed and inspired by his successor.
---Dr. Michael W. Fox, author of The Dog: Its Domestication and Behavior and other titles with Dogwise publications. Review to appear in his Animal Doctor syndicated newspaper column with Universal Uclick
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