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Stray Dogs Master Complex MoscowSubway SystemMOSCOW March 19 2010

By ALEX MARQUARDT BILL BLAKEMORE and ROSS EICHENHOLZ

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Every so often if you ride Moscows crowded subways you notice that the commuters around youinclude a dog - a stray dog on its own just using the handy underground Metro to beat thetraffic and get from A to B

Yes some of Moscows stray dogs have figured out how to use the citys immense and complexsubway system getting on and off at their regular stops The human commuters around them areso accustomed to it that they rarely seem to notice

In Moscow there are all sorts of stray dogs butthere are no stupid dogs Dr Andrey Poyarkov abiologist who has studied Moscows strays for 30years told ABC NewsAs many as 35000 stray dogs live in Russiascapital city They can be found everywhere frommarkets to construction sites to undergroundpassageways scrounging for food and trying tosurvive

Taking the subway is just one of many tactics thestrays have come up with for surviving in the

manmade wilderness around them

The street is tough and its survival of the fittest says Poyarkov These clever dogs know peoplemuch better than people know them

Poyarkov says that only a small fraction of strays have figured out how to navigate the maze that isMoscows subway system

Whats most impressive about the subway dogs says Poyarkovs graduate student AlexeiVereshchagin is their ability to deal with the Metros loud noises and packed crowds distractionsthat domesticated dogs often cannot handle

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Its stressful even for people standing in a crowd he says and the dogs are lying down so noone is seeing them so anyone can put feet on them But they get used to this

ABC News found a female stray in the Kievskaya station and barely managed to follow her as shezipped between the legs of the bustling travelers around her to catch a ride on the Koltsevaya Line

Once on board she settled down on the floor among the feet and legs even dozed a bit andoccasionally got up for a brief conversation with a friendly human

She seemed to sense that such close quarters were no place to appear threatening

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Author Eugene Linden who has been writing about animal intelligence for 40 years told ABCNews that Moscows resourceful stray dogs are just one of what are now thousands of recordedexamples of wild feral and domesticated animals demonstrating what appears at least to bewhat humans might call flexible open-ended reasoning and conscious thought

Linden cites a wide variety of creatures ranging from captive orangutans and otters who frequentlyand slyly trade with their keepers to a British cat famous for regularly taking the bus to asquirrel in Oklahoma who became a local hero when people began to notice that it regularlyobeyed traffic signals when crossing a busy street

The take-away is that animals are not just passive in this Linden told ABC News They arefiguring out what were about and how they can game the system and work it to their advantageas well

Moscows strays have also been observed obeying traffic lights says Vereshchagin He andPoyarkov report the strays have developed a variety of techniques for hunting food in the wildmetropolis

Sometimes a pack will send out a smaller cuter member apparently realizing it will be moresuccessful at begging than its bigger less attractive counterparts

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This reminds me of the street dogs I saw in South America They looked pretty healthylike someone was feeding them Not only that but you would see stray dogs walkingaround in sweaters or sweatshirts that someone had put on them for the winter

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Call me when they learn to steal bicycles

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