How Were Carrier Pigeons Trained?

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In the past, pigeons were used to convey important messages. But exactly how were pigeons trained to do that, and which ancient civilization was the best at it?

Got a neat historical idea? Drop a comment and I'll try to get to it!

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juniorsanchez

My favorite use thought up for a pigeon was as a missile guidance system. Before proper guided missiles were figured out some lads had the bright idea to train a pigeon to peck at specific pictures on a screen in a compartment inside a missle. Some were tested and somewhat successful but never put in full production.

zachdewgaming

It raised some other questions like, how long would a pigeon live in some place that wasn't their "home"? Couldn't pigeons "get used to" to the new place and forget the way home?

LuizFelipe-lkhs

You sound like the narrator from little big planet

wolffamp

Weren't there 2-way pigeons? I've heard that some pigeons have a separate home and feeding roost. So they're released in the morning and fly to the feeding roost and then by afternoon they fly back to their home roost. So it's basically a once-a-day walkie-talkie.

nunyabiznes

Thanks for this video, I randomly pondered upon how they were trained, and this explains it simply.

I could not understand how they could be trained to fly to different places, but only trained to fly back to its original home makes more sense.

Furaxxxxx

The noble Greek pigeon @1:15 and the Roman and Mongolian pigeon @1:18 are so cute !!! I love how you animated this

MzAllSunday

After hearing the story of cher ami, I was really curious about how this works. Thanks for the video

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roballister

Thank you! I've always been so confused about carrier pigeons. Movies made me think you could just train them and be able to tell them where to go and they would go there. Now i know you just train them to go home, and that you have to bring them with you, and can only send messages back home

Loganxmusic

Interesting video. Yeah know once in WWII Pigeon bombs could've been used to take out ships because of their excellent homing ability. But higher military echelons considered it too weird to work. Although it would've worked quite well.

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