The best-known dogs

The best-known dogs

Animals Hits: 56

Dogs surround the person from time immemorial. These are devoted and loyal friends, good assistants in any given situations. For all history of existence of mankind the people resorted to the help of dogs in absolutely different situations and spheres of life: dogs were sent to space, investigated by practical consideration, cloned and just admired their boundless devotion and fidelity. And for all this to dogs was praises from the owners enough.

Instruction

1. The HatikoVernyy dog by nickname Hachiko is not just the character of the movie, but also a real idol of multimillion Japan. The lifeline of Hachiko was closely bound with the hotly favourite owner. But their friendship lasted not for long. Life of the owner was torn off by a heart heart attack. The deserted dog at that time was only 1.5 years old. Since then faithful Hachiko every day for 9 years came to the same place (on the Sibuya station) waiting for the owner. Relatives and friends of the dead tried to take away a dog to themselves, but everything was vain – Hachiko constantly returned to the station, expecting the owner before late twilight then he left to the become empty house (where there lived his owner earlier) and spent the night there on a porch. The dog died of a heart filyariya in 9 years after the death of the owner. Now in Tokyo there is Hachiko's monument.

2. Protein and StrelkaNevozmozhno not to mention these pioneers of space. Belka and Strelka is the not purebred dogs who sustained severe selection on the right the first to subdue space. Various overloads learned to transfer these dogs, long time to be in the closed space, to eat a certain food, to react quietly to loud sounds and noise. Very few people know that they Strelka and Belka deserved the right to be only doublers, and originally two other dogs – Chanterelle and Chaika were sent to space. Unfortunately, their flight ended exactly on the 12th second after rise of a rocket. The rocket exploded. In a month doublers – Belka and Strelka were started. Their safe return from space became a world sensation, and their these travel formed the basis of development of future flight in space of the first person – Yury Gagarin.

3. SnappiN so long ago the list of the well-known dogs was replenished with one more individual by nickname Snappi. This dog is the first-ever cloned dog. He was born on April 24 the 2005th year. Its birth was preceded by long long-term experiments and researches in which scientists from the South Korean Seoul university were engaged. It is curious that the name of this dog is put from two words: abbreviation of the university (SNU) and English word puppy (puppy). Scientists say that it was necessary to implant more than 1000 embryos into 123 females to receive the unique clone. As a result only three dogs were pregnant women, and successful childbirth took place only at one. Breed of this dog – the Afghan borzoi.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team

Print