Post by Adele on Jul 19, 2021 15:43:17 GMT -7
I found this story interesting.
www.wionews.com/world/thousands-of-racing-pigeons-disappear-in-mysterious-solar-storm-395031
I'm not sure if they have since found them. With homing pigeons, they transport them in a covered transport, so they don't see where they're going, yet after release, within just a minute or so, the homing pigeon will fly towards home, even though they may be hundreds of miles away.
People still don't know how homing pigeons work. There's lots of theories, but they've never been able to pinpoint it. I remember one theory was through the magnetic field of the earth, and they put large magnets around the release site, and it didn't disturb the pigeons at all. They even blocked the nasal canals of homing pigeons thinking they may use smell, but that also didn't deter them at all. They also tried transporting them in really obscure directions, and spinning them, etc., but always within just a minute or so, they knew exactly which way to fly.
www.wionews.com/world/thousands-of-racing-pigeons-disappear-in-mysterious-solar-storm-395031
I'm not sure if they have since found them. With homing pigeons, they transport them in a covered transport, so they don't see where they're going, yet after release, within just a minute or so, the homing pigeon will fly towards home, even though they may be hundreds of miles away.
People still don't know how homing pigeons work. There's lots of theories, but they've never been able to pinpoint it. I remember one theory was through the magnetic field of the earth, and they put large magnets around the release site, and it didn't disturb the pigeons at all. They even blocked the nasal canals of homing pigeons thinking they may use smell, but that also didn't deter them at all. They also tried transporting them in really obscure directions, and spinning them, etc., but always within just a minute or so, they knew exactly which way to fly.
