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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.

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