Animals are cool. Those that aren't cool are sweet. I enjoy their antics and their Machiavellian politics.
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see:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/13863523
Reminds me of the Outer Limits episode "How To Serve Man".Urban pigeons have the ability to learn the difference between people who will feed them and those who will chase them away, a French study has indicated.Researchers suggested that this allowed birds to limit the time spent searching for food, and maximise the time eating...
"Considered as a plague in many cities, pigeons in urban areas live close to human activities and exploit this proximity to find food - which is often delivered by people," the team of French scientists wrote...
The researchers decided to conduct a series of experiments to explore the pigeons' ability to exploit the "human-based food resource", while avoiding people who were hostile...
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Ah yes, I thought you were. (My cat is a 'familiar' though, meaning she reads my etheric).
Urban pidgeons have to fight so hard to stay alive. I admire them, though I don't particularly like them.
They remind me of Fagin and his band.
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