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Free-ranging dogs in the streets: foreseeing a multispecies coexistence crisis beyond shortsighted kindness or conflicts
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Authors
Nishant Kumar 
Abstract
Nature-based solutions tout climate goals, often ignoring the lived entanglements of multispecies coexistence. Tropical cities have become battlegrounds of misguided kindness and escalating conflicts with animals. Human niche expansion creates a paradox for free-ranging denizens: abundant food sources from waste, yet unprecedented ecological pressures from infrastructural neglect. Using dogs’ case, I reveal how ritual feeding and emotional responses create ecological traps—hurting both animals and people—warranting ecological foresight-driven planning for inclusive, more-than-human cities.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.32942/X25921
Subjects
Animal Sciences, Behavior and Ethology, Biodiversity, Life Sciences, Population Biology, Zoology
Keywords
Urban coexistence, sustainability, One Health, Human-animal conflicts, zoonoses, Ecosystem Service
Dates
Published: 2025-06-21 03:33
Last Updated: 2025-06-21 03:42
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CC BY Attribution 4.0 International
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Language:
English
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