Stray dogs have learned to use the subway in their search travel
for food. They board the trains daily and travel back and forth
without paying any fares; quite a feat for supposedly “dumb
animals.” According to Russian biology professor Andrew
Poyarkov, dogs in Moscow have learned to use the city's
underground rail system. he told the press that he has seen them
travel into the center of the city, where they can more easily
find food, each morning and travel back to where they live each
evening. In his words: “They do not just go to the subway
station, they actually board the trains. They seem to have
learnt how long they need to stay on the train to leave at the
right station. Sometimes they fall asleep and miss their stop.
Then they get off take another train back to the centre.” Moscow
ecologists believe that this phenomenon began in the early 1990s
after the Soviet Union collapsed and Moscow fell into the hands
of new class of Russian capitalists. This commercial revolution,
which was marked by the remov