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Ep. 466: Direwolves and Ancient Hunting Dogs

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The Importance of Using Dogs in Subsistence Hunting

In nikaragua primary meat is coming from subsistence hunting and these like neotropical forests pretty pretty dense kind of tropical forests. Their dogs are not really trained it's they come out one they might get killed by a jaguar some ways that's good for you because it's killing your dog it's not killing you so that's all right um but a lot of them get lost to jaguars or snake bites. A lot of them are just clearly not up for it but then you get some small population of dogs who are really good at it and then teach other dogs to do the job.

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