How Do Homing Pigeons Get Home? Extraordinary Animals BBC Earth
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1) No matter how many compasses you have, unless you know where you are to begin with, you won't know which direction to take.
This is clearly true for humans, but it does not follow that pigeons should be any less lost if you were to blindfold them and drop them in the middle of the Atlantic - not if their 'compass' is centred in on their home. No matter which way you took them, their home would rotate according to the axis you turned them on, kind of like a gyroscope. 'But how do you explain depth? I hear you cry. ' Well, if they reach their home in longitude and latitude, the altitude is hardly going to be of much concern. I mean, how realistically can you hide a pigeon home in height or depth? If they reach the top of the empire state building, it's not much of a leap for them to conclude their coop is in the foyer.
So, the objection to the magnetism theory is a totally illogical conclusion. I hope someone has realised this in the last 5 years.
Date: 2020-08-24
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Comments and reviews: 6
lamfilipos
This is glorious, been searching for barn pigeons for sale michigan for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you ever come across - Hansaac Riyliver Scheme - (do a google search )? Ive heard some incredible things about it and my mate got excellent results with it.
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This is glorious, been searching for barn pigeons for sale michigan for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you ever come across - Hansaac Riyliver Scheme - (do a google search )? Ive heard some incredible things about it and my mate got excellent results with it.
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Zuber
An absolutely terrible and misinformed video. How on earth did they fail to mention the many experiments that have shown the pigeons finding their way home even with their olfactory nerves severed.
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An absolutely terrible and misinformed video. How on earth did they fail to mention the many experiments that have shown the pigeons finding their way home even with their olfactory nerves severed.
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Kevin
It is better to just say that we have no idea than to use your theory as evidence. Nevertheless, I disagree with the theory of smell, it is just not logical.
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It is better to just say that we have no idea than to use your theory as evidence. Nevertheless, I disagree with the theory of smell, it is just not logical.
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TheStockwell
How do they do it? They are guided by an unseen, omniscient, and all-knowing force. We know that gentle and loving presence as Sir David Attenborough.
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How do they do it? They are guided by an unseen, omniscient, and all-knowing force. We know that gentle and loving presence as Sir David Attenborough.
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Bill
Smell my but. That can easily be ruled out. This video is partly lies and partly true and honestly they really don't know how they do it.
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Smell my but. That can easily be ruled out. This video is partly lies and partly true and honestly they really don't know how they do it.
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Ben
I saw a video where it purposed that they find their way home by listening to a sound created by the earth that is too low for us to hear
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I saw a video where it purposed that they find their way home by listening to a sound created by the earth that is too low for us to hear
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