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Homing pigeons fly off from an unknown place in unfamiliar territory and still manage to find their way home using a mental map, a new study has revealed.
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A new research by psychologists at the University of Iowa has suggested that pigeons are capable of making highly intelligent choices, sometimes with problem-solving skills to match.
Last Updated: Monday, November 5, 2012, 12:47
More than five hundred pigeons suddenly dropped dead at a village in Bihar`s Bhagalpur district over the last four days, causing residents, some of them pigeon-keepers, to fear that something was amiss.
Last Updated: Saturday, October 27, 2012, 00:41
British intelligence agency MI5 considered developing remote-controlled homing pigeons - perhaps to carry explosives, according to newly released post-war diaries.
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Certain neurons in pigeon brains encode the direction and intensity of Earth`s magnetic field, providing the common birds with an internal global positioning system.
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Researchers in New Zealand having discovered that pigeons can actually count as well as monkeys.
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Even feral and untrained pigeons can recognise individuals and are not fooled by a change of clothes.
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The 44-year-old, a retired boxer, says it was not just his fighting skills and tough structure that made him a known figure.
Last Updated: Monday, May 30, 2011, 11:57
Mike Tyson has expressed his love for pigeons and nonchalance for his heavyweight belts.
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