Why pigeons deserve more respect.
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The pigeon was chosen because it has remained for a thousand years ‘an impartial and humble observer of London life’.
Pigeons simply don’t deserve the bad press they get.
In nature, one group of bacteria produces magnetic particles to orient themselves along Earth’s magnetic field lines.
After Google suggested PigeonRank was at the root of its search function, a group of researchers put a small flock of the birds to a different classification test in real life.
London should be one giant pigeon cemetery, but you rarely see the bodies.
By reintroducing new gene variants back into the wild, there’s hope it will reverse the negative impacts of pink pigeon inbreeding.
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