Saturday, January 23, 2010

I, for One, Welcome Our New Canine Overlords

Moscow's Stray Dogs Evolving Greater Intelligence, Including a Mastery of the Subway | Popular Science: "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."

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