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The findings, published Wednesday in the Journal of Experimental Biology, may shed light on why the normally amazing navigators sometimes get completely lost: the low-frequency waves from their current location don't reach their home loft.
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Prior research had shown that birds hear incredibly low-frequency sound waves of about 0.1 Hertz, or a tenth of a cycle per second. These infrasound waves may emanate from in the ocean and create tiny disturbances in the atmosphere. Hagstrum began to think the birds used infrasound for navigation. "If that sound in the Earth is coupling through the topography, then maybe the birds are actually sort of seeing, or imaging, their topography around their loft acoustically," he told LiveScience.
Originally posted by Agarta
On a side note we do know that these pigeons mate for life and when one was kept and the other taken the separated pigeon would find their mate so is it the combination of the two or would it have the same results if the male and female were taken to different locations would they fly home or to each other? By the resluts of this study they would meet at home.
edit on 31-1-2013 by Agarta because: forgot the source link
Originally posted by ladyteeny
last year i had a pigeon turn up in my garden.. it was mostly tame, ate from my hand, and had a ring on it's leg (i messaged the owner after ringing the pigeon society people and they didn't get back to me).... this pigeon stayed with me being fed up for about 5 weeks.... one day it took off and i didn't see it the following day, the day after that it returned, with it's mate, also with a ring on it's leg and also fairly tame.
how did it know that a. it'd be able to break it's mate free? and b. how to get there and back at the right time to do it? i'll never know but it made me aware of the fact that much more goes on in their little heads than we realise.
Originally posted by amraks
Originally posted by ladyteeny
last year i had a pigeon turn up in my garden.. it was mostly tame, ate from my hand, and had a ring on it's leg (i messaged the owner after ringing the pigeon society people and they didn't get back to me).... this pigeon stayed with me being fed up for about 5 weeks.... one day it took off and i didn't see it the following day, the day after that it returned, with it's mate, also with a ring on it's leg and also fairly tame.
how did it know that a. it'd be able to break it's mate free? and b. how to get there and back at the right time to do it? i'll never know but it made me aware of the fact that much more goes on in their little heads than we realise.
are you sure its mate was locked in a loft? also them lofts have no way out, once they are through the Belgium bobs, they are stuck in the loft.
Also could it be that the owner had a race meet 5 weeks later and used his mate in this race lol.
The most widespread Rothschild myth was that Nathan, after receiving news by carrier pigeon of Wellington's victory at Waterloo, made a vast fortune speculating on the rise in British government securities. The reality, says Ferguson, was quite different. The Rothschilds' couriers did alert them first to Napoleon's defeat, but since they had bet big on a protracted military campaign, any quick gains in bonds after Waterloo were too small to offset the disruption to their business.
Rothschild capital did soar--but over a much longer period. Nathan's breakthrough was a deal to supply cash to Wellington's army in 1814. Waging a high-risk campaign of exchange-rate transactions, bond-price speculations, and commissions, the family garnered huge profits from this governmental financing. Then, from 500,000 pounds in 1818, Rothschild capital rose to 4,330,333 pounds in 1828--about 14 times the resources of their nearest competitor, Baring Brothers, which had been a close second. Their strategy: financing the postwar stabilization of Europe's conservative powers. That meant luring monarchs and ministers, such as Austrian Chancellor Metternich, into their orbit. What made the Rothschilds ''the dominant force in international finance after 1815'' was ''the sheer scale--and sophistication--of their operations.''
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