2006-10-22 00:23:51 · 12 answers · asked by dan b 1 in Pets ➔ Birds
Most pigeons now have tom-tom-go
2006-10-22 00:28:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Pigeons use at least three different modes of navigation. Right between their eyes, they have a layer of magnetite cells (like natural magnets). These sense the earth's magnetic fields and they use that sense to help get back to where they feel "comfortable". Second, they have been shown to use the angle of the sun and the time of the day (sort of an internal clock that lets them know where the sun "should" be for home, and they head that way. Third, there is evidence from some Italian studies that they may actually use scent -- though there is still some experimentation being down to verify this. Fourth: they've been shown to also use some visible landmarks - they often follow roads, etc., which you can actually see them do if you have racing pigeons and follow them sometime.
There is also evidence that pigeons can hear infrasound (deep sounds way below what human beings can hear) and that they may also use these clues to find their way. A pigeon in California can likely hear the wind going thru a pass in the Rocky Mountains.
There is still much research being done on homing in pigeons as well as in wild birds. It's a field that is active and it's still got a lot of surprises waiting for us to discover.
Pigeons are fascinating and wildly exciting animals that are much, much more than just the "things" that are dirty because they're forced to live in human dirt and oil in cities.
2006-10-22 13:47:37 · answer #2 · answered by ieguy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok, racing pigeons are a special breed of pigeon, they were bred specially for message delivery back in the medievil days, 2 different people had the one bird, and this bird new these 2 locations.. so these two people would use this bird to send a msg to eachother, and for all the people they need to send messages to fast they had a bird for it. so if they had 20 people, then there was 20 birds..
now days, they use them for racing, the bird is taught trust there owner and they teach them and special noise they will use and when the bird learns this noise and comes to the owner, the owner then lets the bird out to fly around and teachs to bird to come to the noise and learn the area, like what there house looks like, and the bids remembers this ands so when they learn all this, and a race is on, they can take them thousands of miles away and the birds will fly home,
2006-10-22 01:19:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i does no longer feed the pigeon, as this suggests he buddies the feeding along with his very own loft, in case you are able to seize the pigeon, place it in a field and head apersistent approx 15 - 20 miles out of your living house, launch the poultry and this is going to with a bit of luck locate its way living house to its very own loft and proprietor. Btw what's his ring variety and that i visit touch the BRHA
2016-12-16 11:58:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have about the same internal mechanism as the sea turtle. It is not radar but more a GPS station in a portion of the brain very close to the front of it's cranium.
2006-10-22 15:04:13 · answer #5 · answered by WingMan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Using Tom Toms - since they started selling for under £200, all decent pigeons have one
2006-10-22 00:32:21 · answer #6 · answered by angelina.rose 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
All birds have a large part in their brain which is used solely for direction and homing
2006-10-22 00:33:06 · answer #7 · answered by paul t 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They have a really smell tom tom strapped to their underside.
2006-10-22 22:03:16 · answer #8 · answered by bonehead 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
how do you get home after you go for a walk? its the same question (sorta)
2006-10-22 11:25:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
they have a natural built in radar system
2006-10-22 00:31:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋