Bhutan sterilised and vaccinated 100% of their street dog population

Re:Bhutan sterilised and vaccinated 100% of their street dog... by csomar on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @01:49AM (#38173943)

Asia has 4.5 billion humans. So that works out around 15 persons per dog. Seems quite spot-on given that these dogs will eat on leftovers and whatever humans throw to them. I wonder if they derived the number that way (highly doubt they are id-ing all these dogs).

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Re:Bhutan sterilised and vaccinated 100% of their street dog... by strken on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @03:00AM (#38174316)

There are a bunch of methods for doing field surveys of animal population in the wild, but they don't work so well for large animals. I'm curious how they estimated it, too.

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Re:Bhutan sterilised and vaccinated 100% of their street dog... by harperlee on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @05:54AM (#38175400)

But surprising nonetheless! I just thought of 15 times my city population and it is astounding.

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