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Covenant of the Wild: Why Animals Chose Domestication
Covenant of the Wild: Why Animals Chose Domestication | Stephen Budiansky
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In this fascinating book, acclaimed science writer Budiansky show how humans and animals linked their fates at the end of the Ice Age. Horses and cows, cats and dogs became domesticated not through human efforts, but through the need to ensure the survival of their species. Budiansky argues that it has proven to be a brilliantly successful evolutionary strategy.
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The tracks of wild animals such as wolves and foxes move in straight and purposeful lines; at the trot, each hind foot is cautiously placed exactly in the spot where the corresponding front foot first fell. Dog and cat tracks are a testimony to carefree fearlessness. They meander, circle, zigzag, and drag; the hind feet sloppily miss the mark. (34)

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