Dogs enjoy the creature comforts of their relationship with humans, which scientists believe started because humans had spare foodWhen temperatures plummet the prospect of taking the dog for a walk may not always appeal. Yet man’s love for his four-legged friend first blossomed because of a cold climate, scientists have suggested. SponsoredBoth dogs and humans were pack hunters of large prey. They were competing for resources and capable of killing each other, the researchers write in a paper in the journal Scientific Reports. “So how could humans possibly have domesticated a competitive species?”The answer, they suggest, lies in the sources of food across Eurasia towards the end of the last

Source: The Times January 07, 2021 17:03 UTC