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Preference for meat is not innate in dogs

2014-01-01

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Indian free-ranging dogs live in a carbohydrate-rich environment as scavengers in and around human settlements. They rarely hunt and consequently do not encounter rich sources of protein. Instead, they have adapted to a diet of primarily carbohydrates. As descendents of the exclusively carnivorous wolves, they are subjected to the evolutionary load of a physiological demand for proteins. To meet their protein need...

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Literature Corpus work: eac510bf-ef3c-5d52-ae83-78320bf96a08
DOI: 10.1007/s10164-013-0388-7

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