[csomar]

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).

[strken]

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.

[harperlee]

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