TWC Natural History News–Homing Pigeons…Don’t…Home: What do you mean? Don’t they take bearings on the sun? Nope, say researchers at Oxford University, who spent the last decade tracking carrier pigeons with GPS. They follow….roads. Just like we do. How did the scientists figure this out? Well, they tracked the pigeons and discovered that they flew unerringly along major roadways, and turned left or right onto side roads as necessary to get to their ultimate destinations. Some pigeons even flew around roundabouts, before exiting. This raises a few obvious questions: 1) in England, do they fly on the left side of the road? 2) Are there ever 4-pigeon pileups?; 3) Do they stop for traffic lights?; and, ummm, 4) WHAT THE HELL DID THEY DO BEFORE ROADS?….Scientists will no doubt spend the next ten years answering some of these critically important queries…..



Commuter Pigeon: “Hi honey, sorry I’m late…The interstate was a parking lot, and the f*cking HOV lanes were closed again for repairs….”