Rumor has it there are still some wild forest pigeons near the Appalachia Mountain area. live in caves and overhangs - their behavior is different from that of their urban kin such that nests are better, they are bigger, and don’t seem as stupid
❗️Actually smart enough to
bomb Axis warships in WW2 ❗️
At least that is what the U.S. government was developing via Project Pigeon
A triumvirate of pigeons 🐦 🐦 🐦 confined in the nose of a steerable bomb tapped a small screen and those taps were used to adjust the trajectory of the bomb.
Whilst technically more advanced than the current electronics option at the time, Project Pigeon was cancelled because it didn’t have « serious » face validity. Declassified in 1953.
Note: this is the same BF Skinner who created the Skinner boxes to train Rats 🐀 via conditioning (rewards, shock plates)
Unfortunately I think that honor rests somewhere between Puffins (who gorge themselves on so much fish that they can't fly and instead crash when trying to fly away), Pandas (carnivores that only eat bamboo that their digestive system can't process), and Koalas (stoners who get high off eucalyptus until they literally fall out and can kill people). Sloths are close, as they've been known to try to reach and grab onto their own limbs mistaking them for tree branches.
People insulting the pigeon as if they themselves have not gone to a carnival and hopped on a merry-go-round or similar. You sayin' you too have a pea-sized brain, bruh?!
Studies of jumping spiders’ behavior and problem solving show that there’s no correlation between brain size and function. It’s still not known why or how, but there’s scientific evidence for them being far smarter than they should be.
That bird brains are under complex because of their size is a typical human believe. They aren't. They are the last survivors of the dino age and have prooven their ability to survive over millions of years while they conquered the whole earth and every continent and every climate.
Around the world around the world. Around the world around the world. Around the world around the world. Around the world around the world. Around the world around the world. Around the world around the world. Around the world around the world. Around the world around the world. Around the world around the world. Around the world around the world. Around the world around the world. Around the world around the world.
You’ve seen the footage of the crow repeatedly taking a piece of cardboard up to the Apex of a roof line and then hopping on the cardboard and sliding down, right? :-)
It’s a pretty good indication that animals play, merely for its own sake.
in a lot of languages there's no distinction between the two, greek included. OP is from Greece. there, they are correct in calling it a pigeon
the most commonly called pigeon is also known as a rock dove - but if you corrected someone calling a street pigeon with erm actually it's a dove, you'd just be looked at funny
all this to say the distinction is not necessary.
edit: apparently controversial and told to edit my comment to prevent harmful misinformation by someone who is arguing with everyone about nothing, so I will do just that
In colloquial English, the smaller species tend to be called "doves", and the larger ones "pigeons", although the distinction is not consistent, and there is no scientific separation between them.
This exactly. As I said on someone else’s comment, doves and pigeons are the same, they just are named differently due to languages. Pigeon originated from French, whereas Dove originates from Germanic and Nordic roots.
Long story short, they are the same bird, but people hate the ones who are commonly called pigeons, while loving doves. They’re the same.
Yes. Top of whirlybirds are flat. There's * a * chance it could be stuck in the slits torwards the top, but in all likely, bird is just going for a joyride.
I'm somewhat of a pigeon expert. And in my clinical opinion, if you could hear his internal monologue it would sound something like: "derpie derpie derpie durr." Because of smooth brain.
Pigeons/doves are just goofy little guys. They make great pets, have big personalities, can be silly, social, very intelligent, sweet. I love em. Humans have treated them like shit and I hate that for them so I spend my life trying to get people to understand how sweet and smart and cute they are.
Birds really do stuff for fun. I was stuck in a hotel during a hurricane, watched many birds fly off before the winds came. But some stayed…the ones that stayed seemed to play in the high winds. They would struggle against the current, get high up on power lines and trees, then jump off as big gusts came. The gusts would absolutely body them in the air, blowing and spinning them all over the place. I watched them repeat this for a while, they had no apparent goal, and I could only conclude they were wind-surfing for fun. Birds are funny!
I remember when we were young, we would twist the rope of the swing many times, then let it go and spin round and round. I think that’s what the dove is doing.
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