[HN Gopher] How Street Dogs Spend Their Days
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       How Street Dogs Spend Their Days
        
       Author : erybodyknows
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2022-06-08 10:50 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
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       | FatalLogic wrote:
       | This is a very strange piece of research because they admit they
       | only observed the dogs during daytime, but they've still made
       | broad statements claiming the dogs exhibit friendly and docile
       | behavior at all times - despite a reputation for aggression that
       | the researchers casually dismiss.
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       | The reality is that street dogs in India are often more active,
       | and sometimes far more aggressive, at nighttime. They often rest
       | quietly during the day to avoid suffering from the extreme heat
        
       | ggm wrote:
       | Is this not how lions spend their days? Or jackals. Or wolves, or
       | foxes: pack predators have good fight/flight/feed balance and
       | just hang around, minimising energy cost. Dogs just do it more..
       | urbanely.
        
         | bediger4000 wrote:
         | Wolves are substantially bigger than dogs. As I understand it,
         | wolves require a lot more calories to live, maybe twice as
         | much. That causes major differences in time budget. Lions
         | fornicate quite often, and it's important enough socially that
         | wild animal rescue places don't neuter male lions, while they
         | do neuter male tigers.
        
         | quickthrower2 wrote:
         | This is interesting enough. Dogs have a special relationship
         | with humans, and this is dogs, in the wild, in human
         | environments but while not being a pet.
        
           | ggm wrote:
           | The cats in Rome (and Athens) are pretty relaxed, spend all
           | day in the sun on the ancient monuments, hassling tourists
           | for a lick of ice-cream and stealing food, but also fed by
           | the local nonnas.
           | 
           | There's a reddit video of a (?slum?) location celebrating
           | when their local "adopted" street dog is found again after
           | going missing for some time. People become attached to these
           | dogs.
           | 
           | So there's a high degree of socialisation going on in some
           | cases.
        
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