well in reality they were used until ww2 because when the enemy sabotaged the radio and telegraph wires it was the best way to comunicate orders (excluding flags of course...)
First US aircraft carrier also had facilities for pigeons. But they liked dock facilities and cranes better and moved out. So the captain gave order to clean the rooms and moved in himself.
Troops in WWI used shotguns to shoot down pigeons so they were still around at that time. They are extinct now, but thanks to DNA and cloning we have hope that they will return
They are not extinct Homing pigeons are raced around the world and it’s the same principle Take a lorry load of pigeons to a start point see which one gets home quickest You could set up pigeon post tomorrow in lots of locations if you wanted
The fact that we abandoned pigeons when we didn't need them for daily life, instead of revering them like we do with horses is a tragedy.
well in reality they were used until ww2
because when the enemy sabotaged the radio and telegraph wires it was the best way to comunicate orders (excluding flags of course...)
First US aircraft carrier also had facilities for pigeons. But they liked dock facilities and cranes better and moved out. So the captain gave order to clean the rooms and moved in himself.
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Troops in WWI used shotguns to shoot down pigeons so they were still around at that time. They are extinct now, but thanks to DNA and cloning we have hope that they will return
They are not extinct
Homing pigeons are raced around the world and it’s the same principle
Take a lorry load of pigeons to a start point see which one gets home quickest
You could set up pigeon post tomorrow in lots of locations if you wanted
@@RedfishUK1964 apologies. I thought that I had read, some years back, that they were.
There is a sort of wild pigeon, the passenger pigeon, that went extinct in 1901. People often confuse this pigeon with the homing pigeons.
@@rstous7691 Thank you. I looked it up and that's the one I was thinking of.