A team of researchers from the University of London and Monash University has found that pigeon pecking order is driven by weight and that a given pecking order can be artificially changed. In their paper published in the ...
Researchers are urging city-dwellers to switch off their garden lights at night-time after a study of magpies and pigeons revealed the harmful impact artificial light is having on the birds' sleep patterns.
Plants & Animals
Jul 23, 2020
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A large fruit-eating bird from Tonga joins the dodo in the lineup of giant island pigeons hunted to extinction.
Plants & Animals
Jul 22, 2020
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Sheep and dog bones can be whittled into orthopedic pins that stabilize pigeons' fractured wings, helping the fractures to heal properly without follow-up surgery. Researchers describe the treatment, which is cheaper and ...
Veterinary medicine
Nov 20, 2019
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Coordinated behavior is common in a variety of biological systems, such as insect swarms, fish schools and bacterial colonies. But the way information is spread and decisions are made in such systems is difficult to understand.
General Physics
Nov 19, 2019
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Next time you visit your hairdresser spare a thought for the pigeons.
Ecology
Nov 13, 2019
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New research publishing June 18 in the open-access journal, PLOS Biology, led by Dr. Lucy Taylor from the University of Oxford's Department of Zoology now reveals that homing pigeons fit in one extra wingbeat per second when ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 18, 2019
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Along with all the usual declarations and deductions, Massachusetts residents have been asked to keep something else in mind this tax season: pigeon droppings.
Ecology
Mar 28, 2019
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Google's 2002 April Fools' Day joke purportedly disclosed that its popular search engine was not actually powered by artificial intelligence, but instead by biological intelligence. Google had deployed bunches of birds, dubbed ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 28, 2019
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A star racing pigeon named Armando has fetched a record 1.25 million euros in an online auction, Belgian media reported Sunday.
Other
Mar 18, 2019
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