Cosmos Magazine journalist Petra Stock joins Dr Sophie Callabretto on the latest episode of The Science Briefing for a comprehensive pigeon intelligence blow-by-blow.
“Pigeon intelligence, it turns out, has been known about for thousands of years. Pigeons have quite a legacy as delivery birds, so homing and messenger pigeons are able to find their way home over extremely long distances,” Stock said.
“It’s kind of an unlikely scenario when you see these birds pottering around the CBD pooping on statues, hanging around the bins at the park… who would've thought!”
“But research on pigeons, or pigeon intelligence, is actually growing with some researchers comparing the way the birds can demonstrate skills that are actually similar to that that we think of with artificial intelligence these days.”
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