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This is a link post Early Antarctic explorers underfed their dogs
"To match the energy intake needed by modern sledge dogs, the dogs on the early Antarctic expeditions would have needed to eat between 2.6 and 3.2 kg of Spratt’s dog cakes a day. However, historic accounts suggest daily dog rations on some expeditions were only around 0.5 kg of biscuits and were sometimes as low as 0.3 kg."
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This is a normal post They underfed the men too
Scott of Antarctic's daily energy intake was only 4300 calories. When Ranulph Fiennes and Mike Stroud crossed the Antarctic 80 years later they each burned up to 11,000 calories per day.
www.newscientist.com/article/mg14719961-900-did-antarctic-explorers-starve-to-death/
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This is a normal post Maybe Scott's expedition didn't have access to a sit-down Greggs in the Antarctic

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This is a normal post Luckily they didn't have to rely on these.
The actual paper points out these were to supplement the diet; actually the dogs were fed on whatever meat was available. If you read stories of the Shackleton expeditions, that often included other dogs!
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This is a normal post Nothing to feed the dogs?
Just wait a bit: Plenty to feed the dogs!
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