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August 5, 2011

Strange But True!

Q. How did dogs get to be “man's best friend”?

A. Our relationship with wolves goes back to about 20,000 B.C., when herds of large prey roamed the last Ice Age landscape, hunted by both wolves and men, says Deidre Barrett in “Supernormal Stimuli.” Wolf packs chased and trapped game faster than humans but had no chance against the largest mammoths, which is where humans came in with their spears and arrows. “Evidence is that humans and wolf packs hunted together from 20,000 B.C. to 15,000 B.C., with humans who liked wolves being more likely to live to reproduce, just as were wolves who liked humans.”


 
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