Monthly Archives: September 2013

Abilities of Pigeons  In a famous article in 1995, Watanabe, Sakamoto and Wakita described an experiment which showed that pigeons can be trained to discriminate between paintings by Picasso and Monet. The birds were first trained on a limited set of paintings: when the shown painting was a Picasso, the pigeon was able to obtain […]

Tradition, history, training and information about the racing pigeon The sport of racing pigeons has a long history and involves specially trained racing pigeons who is taken to a release point, from where they are to return to their homes over a given and carefully measured distance. The winning racing pigeon is the one who […]