Moscow's Dogs

This is so interesting to me, how moscow's stray dogs are adapting to their envionment. Even using the subway its crazy.

For every 300 Muscovites, there's a stray dog wandering the streets of Russia's capital. And according to Andrei Poyarkov, a researcher at the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, the fierce pressure of urban living has driven the dogs to evolve wolf-like traits, increased intelligence, and even the ability to navigate the subway.

check out this article for more.

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-01/moscows-stray-dogs-evolvin...

Comments

one more reason to go to moscow

looper's picture

thank you so much for posting this.
this is totally interesting, and gives me one more reason to visit moscow.

Great article

jon nelson's picture

This is super interesting. Thanks for sharing.
I spent some time in Israel where cats own the streets.

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