Please give me detail.
2007-12-29 03:53:26 · 4 answers · asked by wedfg 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
this is an educated guess. the dogs belonged to pirates, so probably weren't receiving any affection. when they got left on the island, they didn't seek out the islanders and became wild again. they probably were pretty wild with the pirates and didn't have far to go to become feral again.
2007-12-29 04:00:57 · answer #1 · answered by wendy_da_goodlil_witch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dogs will very quickly revert to feral behavior when they are no longer cared for by humans. In the book, the dogs were abandoned by their owners when the island's natives took ship for California. The dogs had to fend for themselves and there was already an existing pack of feral dogs to join.
None of these dogs was truly "wild" - they were feral, which describes domesticated animals that revert to wild type behaviors. On the island, dogs from the pack sometimes joined human households as puppies, and some adult dogs joined the pack, so there was constant flow back and forth. This was not a truly wild population.
2007-12-29 13:00:01 · answer #2 · answered by jillmcm1970 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, they weren't fed and they needed to be hunting and all that. So they got used to their habitat and all.
2007-12-29 11:56:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
their trained to do that
2007-12-29 11:56:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋