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Homing pigeons would always fly back to their home no matter how far they were taken away. They would carry them during war or when traveling and attach messages to their legs to relay a message back to home base.
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Is a passenger pigeon the same as a messenger pigeon?
No. The Passenger Pigeon was a species of North American pigeon that was incredibly numerous before white settlers arrived. Unfortunately due to excessive over hunting its numbers dwindled from over 6 billion to 1 in around 100 years. A messenger pigeon is a pigeon trained to carry a message to a specific destination, and isn't a species so much as a description. Hope that's helpful!
What is the difference between the now extinct passenger pigeon and the messenger pigeon?
Messenger pigeons are domesticated Rock Pigeons,Columba livia domestica, that are trained to fly and return to humans. Passenger pigeons were a wild species.
What word describes the present state of the messenger pigeon and the dodo bird?
extinct
What animal is like a messenger?
There was a kind of pigeon that was used to send messages, but I believe it is extinct now.
When were pigeon messengers officially in use?
Pigeon messaging comes from ancient times. The military used as them as messenger in world war one and two and they were used again in the Iraq war.
How do messanger birds no where t go?
Messenger (also called "homing") pigeons have an instinct to fly home. Therefor, if you raise a messenger pigeon somewhere, and then take it with you, if you release it, it will fly back to the place it used to live. They seem to navigate using an internal "compass." An experiment was done where scientists placed a magnet on a homing pigeon's head, and then the pigeon was released. It became very disoriented, which seems to prove this hypothesis.
Who uses homing pigeons and why?
Pigeon messaging comes from ancient times. The military used as them as messenger in world war one and two and they were used again in the Iraq war. Today they are used for racing.
Will MSN Messenger 7.5 work with yahoo messenger?
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What methods of communication were available during ww1 on the battle field?
Semaphore. Telephone. Carrier pigeon. Runner.
What company did Charles Babbage work for?
he worked for kent messenger he worked for kent messenger
You have a handwriting tab in your MSN Messenger conversation window but it doesn't work so how would you make it work?
Go MSN messenger help.
Dose blackberry 8520 messenger work without internet?
No. The messenger has to have Internet to work. How will it be able to connect to the the signals it require without Internet?
