Hunting Buddies - How Dogs Discovered Man - The Secrets of Nature

No animal reflects human social changes as much as the dog. For millennia, Dogs have served as mankind’s hunting buddies, vital companions in our struggle for survival. In today’s increasingly civilized world, modern dogs have had to Abandon their first instincts, finding new employment as family members, helping the disabled, diagnosing cancer, or sniffing for drugs. We have forgotten what it actually means to be a dog, a hunter. "Hunting Buddies" looks back at this part of our cultural history and discovers where dog skills come from, finding out what we have given up and gained as our relationship with dogs has changed. Different hunting dogs are followed in real-life situations seen from dog and human perspective. Each breed emerged from a specific period in hunting history, when each was supremely adapted to the tasks and skills required. "Hunting Buddies" takes a closer look at dog and man, nature and culture - a cinematic cross-over appealing not just to hunters and dog-lovers but to anyone fascinated by the history and development of humankind.

[@cob9834]

There is a difference between herding dogs and livestock guardian dogs

[@alicecuriosityoftenleadsto6288]

Bonding with dogs not only changed them, but us too. Both dogs and humans evolved increased oxytocin through this process. I often wonder if they were our advantage over other human species.

[@petefluffy7420]

Do you know how they estimate oxytocin concentration in both species 10 000 years ago ?

[@stopdoingthat.hereletmedoi7320]

@@petefluffy7420 with a bullshit detector

[@ANGEL-sp4yz]

Loved every part of historical facts.

[@roolenoir3183]

Dogs were used in war , some even wore armor. Irish wolfhound’s hunted and killed wolves, they ( wolves) were Eating lambs, sheep, cattle so we bred big dogs to kill them or make them move on . The Romans brought over Rottweilers. Asians ( don’t judge me ) brought little dogs like Pugs and Pekingese . But I digress…. we bred dogs to help us in wars and as home security long before keeping them as pets so yes they will have signs of being hurt. I might add that if they have signs of being hurt and then heeled they had to have gotten some kind care.

[@MrAwesomeSaucem]

The only reason dogs and wolves are genetically different species is because dogs became close to humans and developed the ability to digest starches like us. This means that the reasons dogs exist is because of their partnership with humans.

[@CalMob4]

The German Shepherd was bred for herding and ended up becoming a war and police dog.

[@top-dogk9training]

@@CalMob4 you are wrong. Do the research

[@cob9834]

I agree that our relationship with canine started over 100,000 years ago.

[@luisangeldrosnegron3445]

Love this documentary. Very informative indeed!

[@alicecuriosityoftenleadsto6288]

As long as dog breeders/showers keep breeding them for exaggerated physical traits instead of for the skills they were initially bred for we will get further and further from the what the breeds of dogs were initially. Many breeders think they are somehow preserving the breeds of dogs. They are distorting them and will eventually turn them into something else entirely, thereby destroying them :(

[@mrnobody2873]

I think dogs are likely to be the most significant reason we didn't go extinct with the other hominid species.

[@thefisherking78]

I've read about that fox breeding program a few times over the years. They are so absurdly adorable, I can't handle it.

[@weblightstudio8215]

I think it is disgusting. We have enough slaves and passive creatures. All those wild animals in hundreds of cages being programmed for some foolish need where humans just cant have things be themselves horrifies me

[@floptime]

You only see that selective breeding labs in movies. It's kinda disturbing tbh 🤔

[@alicecuriosityoftenleadsto6288]

We really don't need to torture any more animals just because humans want to subjugate and enjoy looking at things they think are 'cute'. I believe that in the future we will see farms and things like this where animals are tortured the same way we see concentration camps today.

[@lYl93]

@@weblightstudio8215Humans are just like dogs and tame silver foxes. It’s called neoteny.

[@galanis38]

It was not just about hunting as this otherwise interesting documentary suggests. Yes, it was also about hunting, but there were many other factors too. Dogs are intelligent and also social animals that are devoted to and protective of their group. Once attached to humans, as some wolves did become early in this evolutionary process, they served as valuable guards against any intruders, human or otherwise. They also have an instinctive organizational ability, so they became herders, both protecting and keeping in order herds of value to humans, from sheep to cows. And of course, their devotion and communication with those they view as their masters made for good leisure company for humans. It's a multi-varied story, the relationship between humans and dogs. But I suspect the first point of contact between wolves and humans that led to this relationship was the personal one, the devotion that humans found in these wolves, and the instinctual guarding they provided. And only after that the hunting.

[@alicecuriosityoftenleadsto6288]

Agreed. Their protective behavior towards others in their pack and ability to warn us of dangers like predators and enemies was probably noticed as soon as we brought home the first cub and bonded with it. Only after that would we have discovered all the other things they could do.

[@kayceegreer4418]

...And now I understand my historical romance novels better than ever! I did not have any clue how grand a French hunting lodge could be. I actually figured it would be something rustic, of logs, although as richly appointed inside according to the wealth of the characters who were nobles or royalty. Your little video has let me in on a few details that have given me a world of understanding of even though authors that I read - some of whom are history buffs who've read the diaries available from Queen Elizabeth l.

[@marceldubai]

Excellent history and narrative. ❤

[@jhonnybravo4065]

Very interesting!!

[@eileenlocke7877]

Thank u 🙏 interesting channel thank u 🙏

[@sokhapuppies]

Amazing video

[@elcasanelles5806]

Very good video, although you might want to revise the bit were it says that when the kid's sugar levels drops is a time for a shot of insulin. It's the contrary, in an hypoglycaemia what is needed is sugar.

[@robertberger8981]

The Leika dog could be trained like the Huskies and he could surprise with his abilitys

[@tonib5899]

A leico become an astronaut too.

[@tonib5899]

It was spelled leica but it was still a highly trained canine friend.

[@richardbishopbishop2871]

@@tonib5899 qqqqqq

[@kathleenmckenzie6261]

It's spelled 'laika.' A leica is a German camera.

[@humn_rights]

I totally agree with this wonderful lady hero of Palestine, her thoughts are my thoughts her feelings are my feelings. It is hard and painful to see injustices thrive.

[@jeffzeiler346]

Why does everybody get the fox breeding story wrong? They bred two groups - one for friendliness to man, tameness: and one group for hostility and abersion. When the research lost it's funding, the researchers could not bear to put down the "domesticated" foxes, and so they were comserved, at great effort, by the researchers. Note that the hostile foxes were just put down - big shock.

[@dopeymark]

Where I grew up in central New Jersey there were people who had horses and hounds, and would go charging across the fields. I believe they were hunting foxes.

[@theobserver9131]

😕

[@tonib5899]

R.I.P Bella miss the long walks and playtime together.

[@Bennahr_Fett]

Was that your dog's name?

[@tonib5899]

@@Bennahr_Fett Bella.

[@theobserver9131]

I'm sure we all miss our animal best friends we've lost along the way.

[@philhoughton3677]

Looks just like the forest up here in NORTHERN Ontario Canada 🇨🇦

[@eileenlocke7877]

I love my dog his a working Coker his my best ever buddy

[@cob9834]

I don’t think the kids so much as select their favorite pop the puppies selected their favorite child and that influenced the child to pick that dog

[@cob9834]

Nobles also used hunting as a form of training for combat and getting to know the geography if attacked

[@alicecuriosityoftenleadsto6288]

They could have easily done that by holding mock battles with other humans instead of torturing and killing animals tho

[@tibzig1]

Poor Sable.

[@alicecuriosityoftenleadsto6288]

Border Collies are just amazing

[@kurzhaarsilva]

They really are! Unreal level of intellect, way beyond any other breed.

[@lindasapiecha2515]

😊😊👍

[@yamabo]

The Hunagrian Vizsla definitely should have been mentioned in this video 😋

[@ThomasELeClair]

,,,,,,How about the scene at [1;32 ] video time ; The dog is almost on top of that beautiful pheasant...............talk about zoom lenses......wow...

[@cob9834]

I know all researchers say they can’t detect red but I had a dog that knew her toys were always red and she seemed to be able to pick out even red pieces of paper saying this this my toy

[@FireSignKennels]

Dogs use their noses.

[@theobserver9131]

Not a big fan of our history of violence, in war or hunting, and our use of dogs for those purposes. Yeah, I know that's where we came from unfortunately, and it's important to understand, but I can't say I enjoy it. Dogs are the best. They are capable of a kind of friendship few humans can pull off.

[@theobserver9131]

...and yeah, I feed my dogs meat. I'm aware of the contradiction. I'm not a perfect being.

[@Masterpeace777]

Don't you think it's possible some of the breeds came from foxes too and not just wolves?

[@systlin2596]

No. Dogs can interbreed with wolves because they are still not that far from them genetically, but not with foxes. Foxes cannot interbreed with wolves, coyotes, or dogs.

[@kurzhaarsilva]

Unless you can prove it genetically. Sure there is a common ancestor and a lot of similarities but I would like to be proved wrong. I just don't know enough about k9s and foxes and their DNA to make any claims. I would also like to know this.

[@paulinarapicka]

The original Turkish koban kopegi- mainly karabash ("black-masked" in translation), known as kangal has a wolf-like head and sometimes IS crossed with a wolf by the shepherds. Modern German shepherd dog has nothing to do with its original type- that slopped back hinders working all day long, everyday. Puppies open their eyes NOT when they are a month old, but around 10-14 days of life, and their ears open at the same time. In a month they are walking without difficulty. Taste buds develop... I don't know- aren't they already developed??? Either way, it is not the taste buds that are important- the emerging of the teeth is... They do depend the most on smell, BUT not the sighthounds. Those dogs have sight as their most developed sense. Bloodhounds are used in searching for missing people. Not "labradors and retrievers", but: labrador retrievers and golden retrievers. Edit: There are a few more types or breeds (because it can be also a mixed dog- Labradoodle) of retrievers- flat coated retrievers, Curly coated retrievers and Chesapeake Bay retrievers to name a few, but only the 2 above (that are the most popular) were shown in this video, so I didn't mention there are others, at first.

[@victoriafeldman8825]

Problem with hunting is that half of the wounded prey escapes and suffers in hiding before dying from injuries

[@jonhildahl9982]

Where can I find that stat? I'm not disagreeing, I've lived in two places my entire life, Cascade & Selkirk Mountains of WA State. Areas rich in large & small game species & have done some hunting myself. I've been tremendously unsuccessful in my outdoor adventures but I know many hunters & have heard the occasional story of one not being able to retrieve the animal. This however is quite rare, I would even say

[@0markvari]

I've hunted since I was eight or nine years old, and it is more like one percent of animals, which are wounded and not found. The hunting is rather different to the techniques used in this video, but in no case is it half of the quarry animals being wounded and escaping.

[@cob9834]

I bet those Russian dogs could be used as search and rescue dogs

[@meosweiwang7054]

Good day please to get

[@TitiniusAndronicus]

Dogs are here to train humans to fulfil their potential. We are nowhere close to the potential of that relationship yet.

[@cob9834]

Using bloodhouse as a man tracker I have never seen one attacked a man other than licking to death lol

[@cob9834]

What about the Belgium Malinois

[@kurzhaarsilva]

What about them?

[@jeanineshiman8228]

This documentary would be much better without the constant music

[@theempyrean1227]

Stopped @1:02, that "hunt" for a fox thing is psycho sick.

[@MrAwesomeSaucem]

What do you mean? It's literally a video of a dog herding cattle.

[@victoriafeldman8825]

Still don’t understand how you get from a wolf to a beagle

[@kurzhaarsilva]

That's a good one. I saw a miniarure blue heeler maybe a year ago that looked like a Chihuahua with a blue heeler coat. Probably an artificial insemination with the smallest specimens but still freaky. I think breeding and and cross breeding was fun for our ancestors just like it's fun for some today. I can totally see it how you get from wolf to beagle or a corgi breeding genetic abnormalities. Still happening today with some breeds. As to to your original question there was a bit more happening when it comes to wolves, probably some other species and the wolves as we know them are the only ones that maintained original form and the others are dogs in our days. Europe is kinda funny that way with genetic deformaties when it was cool to do it to even people.

[@lynnleigha580]

Imagine making a video about the killing of gods little creators and not even being killed for food. The liekas can all die, I won't she'd a tear, they've almost done away with the wild ones, now they're being farmed, living in tiny cages on top of wires and poop.

[@meosweiwang7054]

Woo,看看是某些事情，如果是危害了人

[@wisdon]

what!? 😂

[@theobserver9131]

Don't blame the liekas. (sp?) Blame the humans that bred, trained, and used them.

[@janbaltes2863]

Co-op

[@pikachuichooseyou4273]

32:57 Their world is becoming bigger by the day. There's always something new to discover____🤖The armed forces____ Subliminal Army recruitment add for wannabe service dogs🤪

[@yoonjay3239]

5:24 Isn't he the reason why sable population declined so low?

[@glps6167]

The content of the video does not match the title - how dogs discovered man.

[@kurzhaarsilva]

I think you are into semantics more than actual content. They did just fine with us thousands of years ago just like we do with them today, not always and not everybody but still. If you would like to discuss how to use language properly I can certainly point to in the right direction right on your chair behind the computer not knowing life as it is.

[@dire3648]

Yo dogs smelling cancer is so crazy to think about

[@tompekarna]

Not sure of the validity of your related to domestication of wolves but most researchers feel 30-35,000 years of domestication are behind us, not 15,000. DNA reversal sequencing suggests it might be as long as 50,000 years. Cats are at 7-8,000 years from wild stock and it's recentness shows.

[@simpleman283]

Background noise was distracting.

[@joycehendry3595]

The cancer dogs are so everything During training dogs kept picking a healthy tube The mistake was the humans, because unbeknown to them this heathly sample had cancer

[@faraon2012]

anima L mundi

[@fritzstehr]

Another documentary with background noise not infrequently drowning out the narrator. Unwanted sound is noise. 👎 Time to find something more professional.

[@suziperret468]

Blood sport s are sick!

[@conchitinabernardo4370]

How cruel hunting is !

[@ombra306]

Loved the music,toobad for the Voice in the background....

[@victoriafeldman8825]

Can’t believe people still wear fur

[@johnharris7353]

European nobility... I hate those words.

[@kaarlimakela3413]

While still alive, the young French nobleman, who became the fictional Vampire LeStat, hunted enormous troublesome wolves on his family land. Of course, LeStat lies, but those passages in the book are hair-raising.

[@10laws2liveby]

Well it's good to hear the British have finally become civilized, a bit.

[@christinedegarmo4714]

Those metal traps should be outlawed, anyone, their dogs, etc. could step on those. 🤬 I don’t like anyone who is a hunter.

[@yellowneck92]

Ok karen no one cares

[@MsTankrat]

Your right you want your food laced with chemicals and wrapped in plastic. Please go and get a starbuck's and shut up.

[@MrAwesomeSaucem]

@@MsTankrat Exactly. Whatever helps them sleep at night I guess.

[@cadeanderson422]

Hunting itself isn’t wrong. Without it we wouldn’t be here. I bet you eat meat too

[@MrAwesomeSaucem]

@@cadeanderson422 I agree - pretty much every type of trapping in the U.S. at least is more humane than factory farms, which produces most meat that people eat. At least these animals got to live in their natural habitat before being killed. Trapping and hunting permits are also largely based on reducing overpopulation and invasive species. This results in a more sustainable future for the native animals in a region.

[@JackKrei]

Foxes are related to cats not k-9

[@user-ll4xf8nk6h]

No they're not. Foxes are canids and related to dogs. Research and think before commenting.

[@robincornell6270]

The fur trade is cruel and barbaric. People who wear fur are shallow, vain and self-absorbed. I feel sorry for the poor sable who has to die for the vanity of the selfish fur wearers. These kind of people are the worst of the human race.

[@PatriciaGodboutArt]

What a disgusting practice

[@leannevandekew1996]

A Trump doesn't smell right.

[@ironempath7261]

The farts of the Boston Terrier are so nice! They're super oily-smelling and truly satisfying. You'll poke your head under the covers to fully enjoy a good whiff of Boston farts. R.I.P. Quincy 🌈 🌉.