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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

4 The Love Of Animals

Wolves, for example–the probable ancestors of dogs–live in packs that hunt together and have a complex hierarchy. Hare suspects that the evolutionary pressures that turned suspicious wolves into outgoing dogs were similar to the ones that turned combative apes into cooperative humans. Evolving Gifts.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

10,000 Birds

Dogs are similarly dispersed across size ranges, with Foxes, Coyotes, and Wolves taking prey across different parts of the size range. Un-owned cats, as opposed to owned pets, cause the majority of this mortality. There is not a wild cat, such as the Wildcat, in North America, at that lower end of the size range for cats.