How Do Homing Pigeons Get Home? | Extraordinary Animals | BBC Earth

[@taekilkim]

Animals never stop fascinating me with their abilities. God bless those wonderful creatures!

[@faneyazepeda3170]

We love pigeons! Besides, my favorite type is the homing pigeons like this video because they never escape, even though it look like it because they always come back. It's what homing pigeons do.

[@Replicant-by1eh]

I love pigeon pie!

[@Thenotfunnyperson]

This is so wrong.

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[@heidithesausage]

Amazing, I completely agree with you.

[@dont-look-down]

I saw one flying with a cell phone the other day. Pretty sure they just use Google Maps.

[@pieroachique3202]

Many thanks, been searching for "pigeon insider" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Ever heard of - Hansaac Riyliver Scheme - (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now ) ? Ive heard some pretty good things about it and my friend got amazing results with it.

[@faneyazepeda3170]

That a good one!

[@michaelfernstrom7694]

You can never lose a homing pigeon - if your homing pigeon doesn't come back, what you've lost is a pigeon.

[@Radiationville]

I had to read it twice

[@nafisabrar4381]

@@Radiationville haha me too

[@MetalDoraemon6]

That's why racing pigeon owners bring these poor animals for euthanasia into Vet clinics when they no longer serve "their purpose". They are an object to them. Is ridiculous

[@HeleneStaley]

These pigeons are intuitive creatures. Love this video.

[@gkrification]

I stumbled upon this on youtube and this is amazing !!! it makes me love animals

[@christian103109]

They really are extraordinary. I never knew how awesome pigeons were.

[@mochiebellina8190]

Theyre smarter than many of my coworkers. So glad Im retired.

[@mrcontroversy222]

@@mochiebellina8190 THEY ARE TOO. old fucks in the industry lmao

[@kent143lou]

that moment when i realize pigeons have better sense of direction than me... SMF!

[@darkangelcloud7]

Bet those pigeons are trolling us and giving us a hard time to figure out

[@TeaBurn]

As much as I hate when pigeons poop on me, they're still pretty awesome in that they have a great sense of direction.

[@TheDarp95]

Lovely explained. Thank you!

[@benf262]

I saw a video where it purposed that they find their way home by listening to a sound created by the earth that is too low for us to hear

[@treegrower1]

How did mine find their way home in a 170 mile while flying in the fog all the way home? That was the only race they won.

[@baskabaska2249]

Wow nice❤

[@jepoy7114]

My Pigeon always return to our house. sometimes,it cameback with another pigeon.

[@robinWrath16]

Pan dagit

[@CookiesNCreamMLBB]

I'm pretty sure they uses sense of smell navigating thier way home i once borrowed a hen pigeon from my friend to breed never let her out the cage, so she shouldn't have idea where my loft are. But when i return her at her owner about a kilometer away from my loft she came back the next day waiting outside of my cage where her chick's are.

[@أسطورةالطائر]

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[@belchmangundaya9869]

I like your video please upload more

[@bayan6325]

Pigeons were used as postmen by ancient kings

[@peterphillips2419]

I always thought pigeons were dumb, I can't even find my way home after a night out in town!

[@quzee5779]

Birds don't smell well though... It's a gyroscope type of GPS inside of their heads.

[@movazi]

And what if the wind blows in the other direction?

[@heathershepherd83]

Please could you add captions

[@alamin104]

could be a gyroscope

[@Happy_HIbiscus]

dude, pigeons are cool

[@GiliMa-o9b]

Hmmm..... Nature smells differently based on the four different seasons.

[@xxairbornexx4499]

it's the white tings on its nose that let it know where north is.

[@barbarahalkyard1901]

You mean their wattles.

[@AnimalScienceTV]

yea but what about monarch butterflies? They can go from Canada to Mexico clearly without memory, they don't even live long enough to make the journey on their own. has to biological

[@filozof90]

Scientist should be honest when they don't know something.

[@thehippo_]

Pigeons: Google Map

[@sonyahuja8120]

But how do they know where they have to go

[@nicholasaugust1981]

They don't. They only know where their home is. You take them to unfamiliar grounds with the aim for them to return home.

[@isaacaugustine2364]

We could give 100 different ways but no one knows the true method they used to reach home magnetic variations is good tho I'll wait till tomorrow to see if those I let go in the dark really reaches back home after 300 miles

[@fuzzygreen3634]

kind of disappointing that we dont know exactly how they do it

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[@haroonkhokharofficial234]

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[@mikeydiggs4797]

To say they navigate by smell is ridiculous

[@venkateshbabu5623]

Nobody is bothered with flying pigeons they get their orientation in brains of the magnetic effect of sun and moon.

[@shadowbrehgraal4973]

All pigeons home right?

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[@Trampflick]

How big in comparison to the rest of there brain is the hippocampus? Especially compared to there olfactory or visual regions?

[@kevinmickle]

It is better to just say that we have no idea than to use your theory as evidence. Nevertheless, I disagree with the theory of smell, it is just not logical.

[@wilsonblauheuer6544]

I don't even think pigeons have a strong sense of smell. Besides, what if the wind is blowing the other way? The birds likely use electromagnetic and ultraviolet sensory abilities to locate the sun- even behind clouds- and to know which way is it's coop. There is no way of knowing how much plain old brainpower is involved, but all flying animals must navigate- it isn't just homing pigeons who can find their way. Insects, fishes, mamals all travel far and wide and find their way home. My dog knows it's way home from anywhere I ever walked her .

[@pelinkizilkus3884]

wilson blauheuer you should watch paranormal pigeons documentary. They have a strong sense of smell.

[@mohamedtouimer1797]

It is not very convincing. Do you have Andy evidence. Plz do share it with us.

[@tomgorst3632]

Well clearly there is a logical error of inference, take the premise against the magnetism theory: 1) No matter how many compasses you have, unless you know where you are to begin with, you won't know which direction to take. This is clearly true for humans, but it does not follow that pigeons should be any less lost if you were to blindfold them and drop them in the middle of the Atlantic - not if their 'compass' is centred in on their home. No matter which way you took them, their home would rotate according to the axis you turned them on, kind of like a gyroscope. 'But how do you explain depth!? I hear you cry.' Well, if they reach their home in longitude and latitude, the altitude is hardly going to be of much concern. I mean, how realistically can you hide a pigeon home in height or depth? If they reach the top of the empire state building, it's not much of a leap for them to conclude their coop is in the foyer. So, the objection to the magnetism theory is a totally illogical conclusion. I hope someone has realised this in the last 5 years.

[@lulzBrownie]

from what i know birds have a very poor sense of smell except for vultures and i think kiwis

[@billilkovski7928]

Smell my but. That can easily be ruled out. This video is partly lies and partly true and honestly they really don't know how they do it.

[@sermavz9137]

Pigeon is better than zoro

[@chris77777777ify]

God

[@thebeachlife1814]

I used one to ask out my girl

[@zes7215]

no such thing as get or not

[@zubermesfin1679]

An absolutely terrible and misinformed video. How on earth did they fail to mention the many experiments that have shown the pigeons finding their way home even with their olfactory nerves severed.

[@KamFoley]

I have no evidence of this, but I think they use Google Earth.

[@sandracarey2769]

i have pigeon on my proch has yellow tag i been try find someone who can take back there home where she or he belong i been try reach dnr no luck i dunno who call pigeon breeders

[@blooz7134]

That's alot of horse shit. It is not snell

[@blooz7134]

Smell*.

[@slogue77]

All a hypothesis in the end , ask Jesus how Jehovah did it on his return...Because that magical bird did not come from a bowl of chemical soup and evolve , like thousand of all the creatures on earth that man cannot explain there wonders...