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theelljar OP t1_j74r14o wrote

Reply to comment by Mkengine in 30-year-old Bobi breaks record for world's oldest dog ever by theelljar

i don't think I'm buying that calculation. 85 really isn't that old in human years. if that were really the equivalent, one would expect dogs to be living into their 20s on a regular basis.

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Mkengine t1_j7ao77h wrote

I also thought about it again and took a closer look at the paper. Their sample includes dogs in the age of 0 to 15 years, so our calculated age is extrapolated. Probably the formula works in their range quite well, but at twice the age of their maximum age, the formula is perhaps no longer applicable. His age is probably somewhere between this result and the conventional formula.

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