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	Pigeon intelligence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pigeons have featured in numerous experiments in comparative psychology, including experiments concerned with animal cognition, and as a result we have considerable knowledge of pigeon intelligence.
		Pigeons have the capacity to share attention between different dimensions of a stimulus, but (like humans and other animals) their performance with multiple dimensions is worse than with a single stimulus dimension.
		Additionally pigeons are one of seven species to pass the mirror test — which tests whether an animal recognizes its reflection as an image of itself — along with common chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, dolphins, elephants, and humans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pigeon_intelligence (430 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Dove
		Pigeons and doves are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills with a fleshy cere.
		These include the homing pigeon, Cher Ami, who received the French Croix de guerre for services during wartime, and who is now enshrined in the Smithsonian Institution, and G.I. Joe, who received the Dickin Medal for his role in preventing the bombing of an Italian village of over 1,000 people.
		In Europe the Wood Pigeon is commonly shot as a game bird, while Rock Pigeons were originally domesticated as a food species, and many breeds were developed for their meat-bearing qualities.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Dove (1387 words)

	Pigeon Poop Cleanup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Pigeons' extraordinary navigation abilities have been attributed to the theory that they are able to sense the Earth's magnetic field with tiny magnetic tissues in their head.
		Current (2004) research in pigeons is widespread, encompassing shape and texture perception, exemplar and prototype memory, category-based and associative concepts, and many more unlisted here (see Pigeon intelligence and discrimination abilities of pigeons).
		Pigeons breed when the food supply is good — for wild rock doves this might be on a seasonal basis so they usually breed once a year.
	www.pigeon-poop-cleanup.com (1909 words)

	Dove - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The termsdove and pigeon are used interchangeably, although smaller species are more likely to be called doves.
		The species commonly referred to just as the "pigeon" is the feral RockDove.
		The poorly constructed nests are made of sticks, and the two white eggs are incubated by both sexes.
	www.free-web-encyclopedia.com /?t=Dove (330 words)

	FAQ - Anti Roosting Pidgeon Spikes (Bird Spikes) - Pidgeon Deterrent (Bird Deterrent)
		Pigeons were carried on ships in convoys and in the event of a U-boat attack a messenger pigeon was released with details of the location of the sinking ship and this quite often lead to the survivors being rescued.
		Pigeons have learned to exploit multiple food sources and although their natural diet would be made up of seeds and grains (when in season) they will exploit just about any food available to them including fast food refuse, bread, household scraps and even worms and insects when there is little or no other food available.
		Pigeon fanciers are at greatest risk where the transmission of disease is concerned and if pigeon lofts are not cleaned regularly, pigeon fanciers are exposed to the possibility of contracting respiratory diseases as a result of breathing in the dust that is created by well-dried pigeon excrement.
	www.deterapigeon.com /faqs.htm (4591 words)

	Mario's Cyberspace Station: Animals trained to be - spies! (1)
		British intelligence set up a "pigeon committee" at the end of World War II to ensure expertise gained in the use of the birds to carry messages was not lost.
		Late in the 19th century the Belgians pioneered the art of breeding and training pigeons, and in the 1930s the Jenssen brothers from the town of Arendonk bred a type of pigeon from which nearly all today’s prizewinners are descended.
		Pigeons were deemed to be of such importance that special services were set up by military commanders for the purpose of news relay and espionage.
	mprofaca.cro.net /spyanimals.html (5876 words)

	RFA: Wild Pigeon—by Nurmuhemmet Yasin. Part 1.
		The old pigeon touches the head of his grandchild, saying: "I don’t know either what a soul is. I once heard the word from my own grandfather, who heard the world from his great-grandfather.
		These pigeons say they are so terrified of landing in the cage, but at the same time they are afraid of losing it.
		Those pigeons in your dream were the descendants of those who accepted slavery and begged for their own lives.
	www.rfa.org /english/uyghur/2005/06/27/wild_pigeon (3803 words)

	Homing Pigeons Century Magazine July 1886
		The homing pigeon of England and America is the voyageur of France and Belgium, the brieftauben of Germany, and the carrier of the misinformed.
		The anxiety to the fate of the first aeronaut and his precious cargo led to the suggestion that pigeons might be sent along to bring word of the result to the waiting city.
		It is as we advance in the scale of intelligence that the spot of connection nears the base of the skull.
	www.pigeoncote.com /homing/homing.html (6510 words)

	Pigeon Network - The No.1 Online Pigeon Source!
		A pigeon arriving from Barcelona at a distance of say 800 miles has to cover that distance as it flies at so many yards or metres per minute, in other words that is its speed for the duration of its fly.
		Thus in normal circumstances the pigeon that wins a race at the short distance in a couple of hours is a racer but so is the Barcelona arrival the next morning although an aspect of nature i.e.
		Another interesting fact which confirms the quality of these thoroughbreds and their condition as well as the expert managerial ability of Wouter Jorna is that the race was the second trip to the Spanish race point for the bird which scored 807th.
	www.pigeonnetwork.com /articles/WouterJoma.html (897 words)

	Academy of Competitive Intelligence
		The successful intelligence system works because all employees are primed to share, communicate and use their own hard-won market information.
		The reason many companies have problems establishing successful intelligence programs is not a lack of internal knowledge, but the fact that they have not yet figured out how to harness that knowledge to analyze the competition.
		The more people see the development and use of intelligence as part of their jobs, the more readily available the intelligence will be and the more it will be used.
	www.academyci.com /ResourceCenter/chap13.html (1934 words)

	The Doo Doo Lounge
		Pigeons Helped The Allies Win World Wars I and II rior to the age of electronic communication, pigeons were one of the most reliable forms of communication in existence.
		Pigeons continued to fly through enemy fire, and amazingly 95% of them completed their missions.
		Pigeons were even fitted with cameras that took pictures of enemy troops.
	home.bresnan.net /~to9y/pigeons/pigeons.html (694 words)

	Dove (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Pigeons and doves are stout-bodied birds with necks and short slender bills with a cere.
		Unlike most other birds (but see flamingo) the doves and pigeons produce "crop which is secreted by a sloughing of cells from the lining of the crop.
		The young doves and pigeons are called A person who keeps pigeons is called 'pigeon fancier'.
	www.freeglossary.com /Pigeon (728 words)

	War pigeon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pigeons have played an important role in wars for a long time.
		One of their carrier pigeons, a Black Check cock called Cher Ami, was awarded the French "Croix de Guerre with Palm" for heroic service delivering 12 important messages in Verdun.
		Yankee Doodle Pigeon was an American homing pigeon in the Hanna-Barbera cartoon series Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/War_pigeon (563 words)

	GeeWhizQuizAnswers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Throughout history, pigeons have been used to carry lifesaving messages, and even medications, very quickly, over impassable terrain, and with a better than 98% success rate – and still do so in some parts of the world, today.
		Pigeons are raced worldwide, which involves transporting them to places where they have never been, releasing them, and letting them find their way home.
		Pigeons are constantly and senselessly exterminated, shot, and tortured in huge numbers.
	www.urbanwildlifesociety.org /UWS/GeeWhizQuizAnswers.htm (963 words)

	Racing pigeons have been cultivated throughout history all over the world
		Pigeon fanciers today are as enthralled with this exceptional bundle of courage speed endurance and intelligence as were the originators of those couriers countless centuries ago.
		The modern racing pigeon is therefore a hybrid and therefore not a pure breed at all.
		The homing pigeon of Belgium is the result of the crossing of the Cumulet of Antwerp with the Smerle of Liege.
	www.silvio-co.com /pigeons/index.htm (1394 words)

	The Question of Non-Human Intelligence
		A second problem with this humanist definition of intelligence is that it is based largely on human introspection and the knowledge that we are conscious, rational, linguistic animals(1).
		This measure seems valid because intelligence does rely on the comparison and coordination of many different inputs from many different structures; a process which would be facilitated by an increased number of connections per neuron.
		If the differences in intelligence were as easily ascribed to differences in brain structure as differences in locomotion can be ascribed to different appendages then there would be strong evidence supporting the conclusion that the brain is behavior.
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /bb/neuro/neuro98/202s98-paper2/Ball2.html (1943 words)

	Picasso Pigeon
		In tests a pigeon was able to spot subtle differences between abstract designs that university students did not notice.
		The pigeon, not previously thought of as terribly bright, is one of the new bird (and other) brains featured in BBC2's Animal Minds.
		A complex social world requires a higher level of intelligence; dolphins and chimps, humans and parrots are all highly social - and smart animals.
	www.fortunecity.com /emachines/e11/86/pigeon.html (754 words)

	TRAINING YOUNG BIRDS for Homing & Racing Pigeons - Pigeon-Talk
		Nutrition: Besides good pigeon seed, other must have essentials are greens/carrots and an avian vitamin everyday (if they don’t eat greens keep giving them and eventually they will—use an electric dicer to get this food bite sized for pigeons).
		We all know that pigeons can fly 50-60 MPH but it is a good pigeon that flies 35-45 MPH on a regular basis so count on your birds to fly at 40 MPH on their way home so from 15 miles out they will need at least 25 to 30 min to complete that.
		Pigeons have the intelligence of a 12-year-old child and can maintain the directions in their head for about 6 to 8 months (this varies) but I recommend that if you have to take a break in training (maybe a week or so) that you start at the place you left off from.
	www.pigeons.biz /forums/showthread.php?t=8046 (2658 words)

	Creative Animal Intelligence, Bird Creativity, pet birds toys
		The pigeons were even able to recognise subtle differences in abstract designs that smart and talented art students were unable to detect.
		The intelligent birds have been able to correlate the changing of the traffic signal lights with the movement of cars.
		Through her work with an African grey parrot called Alex and other parrots and macaws, she was able to show that parrots and macaws appear to have the intelligence and understanding of a comparative level to that of a three to four year old child.
	www.petspourri.com:8080 /trends11.htm (2105 words)

	Pigeon_Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Descriptions of one of these descendants, the feral pigeon, will provide food for thought for readers who are used to seeing pigeons as part of an urban environment.
		Substantiation of pigeon intelligence is provided through a chapter devoted to that topic, which includes examples of different experiments done to determine the birds' mental capabilities.
		The usefulness of homing pigeons and their long history of serving humankind is described as is pigeon racing (the national sport in Belgium).
	www.2racepigeons.com /Pigeon_Books.html (528 words)

	Pigeon Callust - Message Board - ezboard.com
		Pigeon is the spoiled-rotten "daddy's girl" of Trenon Callust, head Wizard of the Bloodsabers.
		Pigeon gives her sister some credit, but rolls her eyes at Rose's angsty hatred.
		Pigeon, hmm, let's just say we haven't ever really been friends, especially when we first met.
	p222.ezboard.com /fwindridersfrm17.showMessage?topicID=4.topic (755 words)

	Adopt a Pigeon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Depending on who you listened to, the ubiquitous pigeons of Ashland's downtown are either filthy, disease-carrying vermin or a possible tourism attraction.
		These pigeons rescued from the Ashland fire are being raised inside until they are ready to be moved to a dovecote outside.
		While adult pigeons will require little maintenance, young birds may require several feedings a day like this as well as constant warmth with something like a heat pad, heat lamp, or brooder.
	www.wingsoverus.org /pigeonadopt.htm (452 words)

	Blog: William McKnight: Pigeon blog
		An entrepreneur and a former award-winning IT executive in data warehousing, he may be reached at wmcknight@csiwhq.com.
		In case any of us bloggers begin to think too much of our blogs, even pigeons are blogging now.
		Business Intelligence Network™ is a trademark of Powell Media, LLC.
	www.b-eye-network.com /blogs/mcknight/archives/2006/03/pigeon_blog.php (168 words)

	Dove
		Feral Pigeons in Krakow, Poland ]] Genus Streptopelia
		Victoria Crowned Pigeon (Goura victoria) Genus Goura crowned pigeons
		Genus Ducula imperial pigeons Chestnut-naped Imperial Pigeon (Ducula aenea paulina).
	www.datamass.net /do/dove.html (431 words)

	USATODAY.com - CIA gadgets: robot fish, pigeon camera, jungle microphones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Keith Melton, a leading historian of intelligence, calls it "the finest spy musuem you'll never see." It is accessible only to CIA employees and guests admitted to those closed quarters.
		Besides the jungle transmitter, the exhibits include a robotic catfish, a remote-controlled dragonfly and a camera strapped to the chests of pigeons and released over enemy targets in the 1970s.
		The pigeons' missions remain classified, made possible only after the CIA secretly developed a camera weighing only as much as a few coins.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2003-12-26-spy-gear_x.htm (960 words)

	Primate Use of Language
		Sign language has been chosen as the superior medium in which to conduct language instruction for primates because they are unable to vocalize language.
		Some researchers hold the belief that primates are simply not intelligent enough to speak.
		Terrace posited that the primates were performing rote memorization tasks similar to pigeons who are taught to peck at colors in specific orders.
	www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu /psych26/language.htm (1626 words)

	After Pigeon Inspections, Bush Eats Crow
		The weapons they found were conventional munitions allowed by the U.N. As to the traces of banned substances, the inspectors' equipment was reacting to sulfur from pigeons and their droppings.
		Perricos and his colleagues have every right to feel vindicated by the new report, and they should be forgiven for gloating.
		A mere six weeks before the invasion, Secretary of State Colin Powell intoned on ABC's This Week that the president saw no further use for U.N. "inspectors to play detectives or Inspector Clouseau running all over Iraq." Powell's was a low blow because Clouseau is the blundering Peter Sellers character in the Pink Panther flicks.
	www.commondreams.org /views04/0303-10.htm (911 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Spy pigeon's medal fetches £9,200
		The PDSA Dickin medal was awarded to Commando the pigeon, which was bred in Haywards Heath in West Sussex.
		Parachuted into France, he flew crucial intelligence, strapped to his leg in a tiny canister, back to Britain in June, August and September 1942.
		Commando was among 200,000 messenger pigeons volunteered for service by breeders during the conflict.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/4054421.stm (312 words)

	Who Am I?
		I'm a pigeon fancier with a longstanding interest in pigeon genetics.
		Until their deaths, Wendell Levi, Dr. Willard Hollander and others shared their expertise and knowledge with me. They were not only considerate to a boy and then a young man, but they were always available to answer everything.
		Doc Hollander almost single handedly created the modern pigeon genetics hobby and there is not one of us who discusses pigeon genetics who doesn't owe him a massive debt of gratitude.
	www.angelfire.com /ga3/pigeongenetics/whoami.html (323 words)

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