Smartest Dogs: Moscow Stray Dogs
Russian scientists say that Moscow stray dogs became much smarter. The fourlegged oldest human’s friends demonstrate real smartness such as riding theMoscow metro every morning to get from their suburban places of living tothe fat regions of Moscow center. Once they arrive to the downtown theydemonstrate different new, previously unseen for the dog skills. Those skills can include “the hunt for shawarma” for example, the popular among Muscovites eastern cuisine dish. This hunt scene can be seen as this: Regular Moscow busy street with some small food kiosks. A middle-aged manbuys himself a piece of hot fast food and walks aside chewing it without arush. Then just in a second he jumps up frightened - some doggy has sneaked up on him and barked out loudly. His tasty snack falls out from his handsdown to the ground and the dog gets it. Just ten minutes later, on the sameplace, the teen youngster loses his dinner in exactly the same manner. The modern Russian dogs are on their urban hunt.“This method of ambushing people from their back is widely exercised byMoscow dogs”, saying A. Poiarkov, working in Ecology and Evolution Instituteof Moscow. “The main point here is to define who would drop the food scared and who won’t, but the dogs are great psychologists they can do it betterthan us”.Moscow ecologists think that dogs started acquiring this habits in 1990s,when the Soviet union collapsed and Moscow has fell into the hands of newclass of Russian capitalists. They understood the true value of the downtownrealty underestimated by previous Communist owners and became removing allthe industrial complexes Moscow had in its centre to its outskirts. Those places were used by homeless dogs as a shelter often, so the dogs had tomove together with their houses, so they had to learn how to travel Moscowsubway - first to get to the centre in the morning then back home in theevening, just as us people.“Sometimes dogs are doing mistakes adapting in metro, but they arestudying.” The commercial revolution of Moscow made their usual feedingplaces like trash bins out of direct reach, so they had to get to know newways of getting their piece of food. That’s how appeared those “Shawarmahunts”. Sometimes though they use more gentle methods. Young girl sits onthe bench to eat her hot dog - a big cute looking dog appears from thesurrounding bushes and puts her head on her knees. The girl can’t help herself sharing the hotdog with a dog. Among some more amazing skill thoseMoscow dogs are the ability not to miss their stop while going on the subwaytrain. Biologists say dogs have very nice sense of time which helps them notto miss their destination. Another skill they have is to cross the road onthe green traffic light. “They don’t react on color, but on the picture they see on the traffic light”, Moscow scientist tells. Also they choose oftenthe last or the first metro car - those are less crowded usually. It’s funnybut the ecologists studying Moscow stray dogs also tell the dogs don’t missa chance to get some play while on their travel in the subway. They are fond of jumping in the train just seconds before the doors shut.bron: http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2227004/posts
