geordie1234 Posted February 2, 2011 Report Posted February 2, 2011 Just saw on bbc three news that scientists in italy think they have discovered how pigeons navigate home the reckon its all to do with the right nostril! Any views on this??
lvlasked Posted February 2, 2011 Report Posted February 2, 2011 are they for real ? tbh i think got to be a load of , but then again they scientists put person i thought would have been to do with somthink like the earth gavity or somthink like that haha what do i no tho
Guest IB Posted February 2, 2011 Report Posted February 2, 2011 'The Italian Connection'. Their research told them the pigeons home using sense of smell alone. I don't think homing instinct is a 'single' anything. Probably a combination of skills.
billt Posted February 2, 2011 Report Posted February 2, 2011 I've not heard the nostril theory before but something works as they mostly come home and I know the 2nd. week in April my swallows will be back from Africa
Rooster J. Cogburn Posted February 2, 2011 Report Posted February 2, 2011 'The Italian Connection'. Their research told them the pigeons home using sense of smell alone. I don't think homing instinct is a 'single' anything. Probably a combination of skills. There was an old theory that birds could smell the road they travelled thus retracing it to get home.This was disproved when they transported the test pigeons to a different location in transport with regulated air and the birds still managed to get home
geordie1234 Posted February 2, 2011 Author Report Posted February 2, 2011 There was an old theory that birds could smell the road they travelled thus retracing it to get home.This was disproved when they transported the test pigeons to a different location in transport with regulated air and the birds still managed to get homepersonally a think not every pigeon has the ability probaly about 2 out of 10 have the ability to head the right way and the rest can follow until much much closer! How many doos do you think would come home from 500miles out of a 1000 doos if the all got singled up????
billt Posted February 2, 2011 Report Posted February 2, 2011 I expect others have had a similar experience, I had a y/bird drop in with mine on race day, put it in basket with food and water and took it to work the next morning about 8mls. North of me and released the youngster, when I came home it was back in the loft, it obviously didn't know the way but must have had a line of flight burnt on the brain from coming home with my youngsters the day before
Rooster J. Cogburn Posted February 2, 2011 Report Posted February 2, 2011 personally a think not every pigeon has the ability probaly about 2 out of 10 have the ability to head the right way and the rest can follow until much much closer! How many doos do you think would come home from 500miles out of a 1000 doos if the all got singled up???? Most doos people breed to race have got homing ability to some extent some have greater ability than others Read something about this earlier actually that summed it up fairly well.You could let 40 go together from 30 miles and they'll batter in if you let same 40 go from half the distance by themselves you'd be surprised at how few do it in the time you'd be looking for.
geordie1234 Posted February 2, 2011 Author Report Posted February 2, 2011 Most doos people breed to race have got homing ability to some extent some have greater ability than others Read something about this earlier actually that summed it up fairly well.You could let 40 go together from 30 miles and they'll batter in if you let same 40 go from half the distance by themselves you'd be surprised at how few do it in the time you'd be looking for.Aye mate a think a read the same thing or something similar! also ive read a lot of top fanciers only single up or double up at the most all the time be intresting to here from someone that does this if it helps them develop better
Guest IB Posted February 2, 2011 Report Posted February 2, 2011 There was an old theory that birds could smell the road they travelled thus retracing it to get home.This was disproved when they transported the test pigeons to a different location in transport with regulated air and the birds still managed to get home This was a much deeper theory, that the air was full of smells some of which originated miles away nearer home and which pigeons could detect, recognise & follow. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2006/aug/06/theobserver.theobserversuknewspages
Rooster J. Cogburn Posted February 2, 2011 Report Posted February 2, 2011 Aye mate a think a read the same thing or something similar! also ive read a lot of top fanciers only single up or double up at the most all the time be intresting to here from someone that does this if it helps them develop better Same as everything else GEO.You'll get a top flier who swears by it and views it as one of the factors of his success and you'll get an equally successful flier who says its a complete waste of time. Thats doo racing
geordie1234 Posted February 2, 2011 Author Report Posted February 2, 2011 Same as everything else GEO.You'll get a top flier who swears by it and views it as one of the factors of his success and you'll get an equally successful flier who says its a complete waste of time. Thats doo racing Aye true mate lol
REDROCKET Posted February 3, 2011 Report Posted February 3, 2011 what a load of shisten housen do the doo's only smell through one nostrel theres only one thing that cantell you how it found its way home and thats yer doo and iv'e asked a few of mine and guess what they wont tell me. scientists lol what do they know.
lvlasked Posted February 3, 2011 Report Posted February 3, 2011 lol rocket ill go ask my doos later and see if they tell me
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