How Dogs Work

Raymond Coppinger Mark Feinstein
Foreword by Gordon M. Burghardt
The University of Chicago Press : Chicago and London

How Dogs Work

The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London
© 2015 by The University of Chicago
Foreword © 2015 by Gordon M. Burghardt

the United States alone, the bite rate has risen to 536 bites an hour—around 4.7 million dog bites per year. Some eight hundred thousand of those people require medical attention, and six thousand need hospitalization: it is said that dog bites are the second largest public health problem in this country.

There are some four hundred billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy—and sixty trillion neural connections in a human brain.