Download e-book for iPad: Dog (Animal) by Susan McHugh

By Susan McHugh

ISBN-10: 1861894880

ISBN-13: 9781861894885

Canines are possibly our preferred pets, and definitely one of many best-loved of all animals. they don't seem to be in simple terms humanity's ally, also they are its oldest: burial websites relationship again 12,000 years point out that canine moved along prehistoric peoples sooner than, in the course of and after either species settled the realm. the tale of the dogs has been essentially entwined with that of humanity because the earliest instances, and this historical and interesting tale is advised in Susan McHugh's Dog.

This e-book unravels the controversy approximately no matter if canines are descended from wolves, and strikes directly to take care of canine in mythology, faith and health and wellbeing, puppy cults in historic and medieval civilizations as disparate as Alaska, Greece, Peru and Persia, and strains correspondences among the histories of canine within the some distance East, Europe, Africa and the Americas. puppy additionally examines the particularly fresh phenomenon of puppy breeding and the discovery of species, in addition to the canine's position in technology truth and fiction; from Laika, the 1st astronaut, and Pavlov's well-known conditioned canine, via to technological know-how fiction novels and cult movies reminiscent of A Boy and his Dog.

Susan McHugh indicates how canine this present day give a contribution to human lives in an enormous variety of methods, not just as pets and advisor canine but additionally as resources of foodstuff in Asia, leisure employees, and medical and spiritual gadgets. puppy finds how we now have formed those animals over the millennia, and in flip, how canines have formed us.

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