As stray dogs are guided in the Moscow metro

For most people, the subway has become a familiar and daily occurrence. Noisy, crowded and often congested world of subway — places that we, the people, tolerate out of necessity. Meanwhile, it turns out, not only biped use public transport. You probably noticed in the metro dogs, which seem to knowingly go into the cars and leave at different stations.

In Moscow there are about 35 thousand stray dogs, and 20 of them regularly use the subway. Jacqueline Boyd from the British University of Nottingham Trent tried to explain a surprising phenomenon. Such behavior is likely to be associated with a number of different factors, ranging from the evolution of people and dogs side by side and unusually thin animals ' ability to feel people's behavior, through which dogs know who to approach and from whom better to stay away. Boyd explains that for so many years of coexistence of the dogs have learned to read the emotional and physical cues of a person.

But to explain the unmistakable orientation of stray dogs on the subway is more complicated. Probably amazing ability is explained by the more developed than human senses. For example, dogs can distinguish stations by the smell and the lighting, the movement of passengers and perhaps even specific people in the subway. Even it is assumed that dogs can identify the station by name, listening to the speaker, but it is unknown whether they understand words or just associate some names of food. Also the dogs help in their regular travel events in the metro — at rush hour, opening and closing stores, night off the subway.

It turns out that stray dogs are a stunning example of the ability to adapt in a world created by humans for humans.

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Most people are so used to seeing stray dogs in the metro that don't pay attention to them, and sometimes can even pet and feed.

About 20 dogs daily use Moscow metro. They behave quietly in a noisy crowd in the rush hour under the deafening sound of trains.

Underground attracts homeless animals warm and able to find food, since many people feed dogs.

Despite the fact that they may suffer from the evil humans, dogs still go back to the subway.

Between the entrance and exit of the Moscow metro station "Mendeleevskaya" is a monument to "Sympathy", depicting a mongrel dog. The monument is dedicated to living in the transition of a stray dog named Boy that stabbed the woman as the Boy barked at her Staffordshire Terrier. The monument inscription: "Compassion. Dedicated to the humane attitude to homeless animals."