Stray Dogs Master Complex Moscow Subway System

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http://abcnews.go.com/International/Technology/stray-dogs-master-complex-moscow-subway-system/story?id=10145833#.UX68KY3n_IW

By ALEX MARQUARDT, BILL BLAKEMORE and ROSS EICHENHOLZ (@ree232)

MOSCOW, March 19, 2010
Every so often, if you ride Moscow's crowded subways, you notice that the commuters around you include a dog - a stray dog, on its own, just using the handy underground Metro to beat the traffic and get from A to B.

Yes, some of Moscow's stray dogs have figured out how to use the city's immense and complex subway system, getting on and off at their regular stops. The human commuters around them are so accustomed to it that they rarely seem to notice.
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Taking the subway is just one of many tactics the strays have come up with for surviving in the manmade wilderness around them.

"The street is tough and it's survival of the fittest," says Poyarkov. "These clever dogs know people much better than people know them."

This photo found at https://www.facebook.com/solidarietatis

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1. That story made me smile

even though it is sad to think about strays, it was heartwarming to see yet another example of animals displaying intelligence.

But this paragraph made me laugh:

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

I swear I initially read that (bold, italics) as if the cat was taking the bus to visit a squirrel in Oklahoma!