When my dad was a kid there was a guy in his neighborhood that would sell pigeons to the kids as pets. but as soon as the kid got his new pet bird out of the cage, they'd fly back to their owner, who'd proceed to sell the same bird to other kids.
My favourite thing about pigeons: they did a study in Toronto that discovered that pigeons always divide themselves among food sources so that each pigeon gets about the same amount of food. So if you start feeding pigeons at a park everyday, as you increase the amount of food you put down, you will only attract more pigeons rather than feed those initial pigeons more. They have a mysterious way of communicating with each other to equitably divide the food throughout the entire city among the thousands of themselves. It’s a beautiful case of solidarity. If only humans were so progressive...
I'm afraid that distinction goes to the dogs that served in Vietnam. Don't Google it if you are a dog lover. It's heartbreaking beyond words. Dogs like German Shepherds are believe to have saved more military lives in combat (per use) that any other single military advancement. In WWII they literally returned home to parades. Vietnam was an entirely different story.
Birds in general are underrated. They are probably some of the most beautiful and intelligent creatures that live on this planet, but not many people stop to look at a bird and appreciate how amazing they really are.
@Alcan Cass Seagulls are way more hellish. Have you tried eating fries when they were near? They agressively attacked highschool students with food where I lived. Pigeons were way less agressive.
i'm not sure actually. most detection devices don't use vision but someform of active sensor. passive ones like vision are very noisy and take alot of logic to identify caracteristics.
I picked up a pigeon injured from a cat attack and wouldn’t fly, I’m still taking care of it, 4 dats later and she’s better. Can’t wait to let her go when she’s okay
there is a guy called "pigavans" in google..he has 2nd generation baby pigeon that was crossed with hen.. Ask him if anybody wants he showed me a video ....babies are cute and intelligent they resemble hen but that fly high! now he is trying with pigeon and duck cross
Nice troll Astroners, pigeons and chickens, pigeons and ducks can't produce offspring. Similarly to how you can't crossbreed a dog and a cat, because wouldn't that be awesome?
Pigeons are also incredibly romantic. They mate for life and care for one another like old married couples. When their mate dies they can get so sad that they refuse to eat and shut themselves away from the world. Some die from this, so I guess you could say they die of loneliness.
I honestly really like pigeons, they’re so adorable and the way they walk🥺and they have this sense of mystery to them, like honestly how tf do they remember how to get home when they’re dropped in the middle of nowhere or somewhere where they’ve never been?
Its exstreamly easy to clean up after them... we have a automatic cleaner in our pigeon coop. (The floor is non stick and with a press of a botton moves and the poo rolls off into a trash bucket) they're exstreamly smart buggers and much easier and cheaper to care for than a parrot. A hella alot quieter to. They purr like a cat and love affection.
I love pigeons. People think they're common ugly animals, but I love how they look. They red-orange eye markings, the contrast with its light blue contours, its black and light gray colors contrasted with shining green and red and purple fleckles. They are beautiful creatures, and adorable. Sigh... if they go extinct, you'll see the same people who wish them dead moon about how beautiful they were.
+wakaka2waka Not all pigeons are the same color as the common rock pigeon. My grandfather has been breeding them for decades and he has a huge range of different colors.
beau ling I adore crows. They even chase hawks out of their territory sometimes, so I try to keep the crows in my area happy so they'll hang around my property.
Humans are so disrespectful. I hate how they will love something or someone until they are not useful anymore, then insult that person or thing instead of giving respect where it is due. Such how they treat the earth and its inhabitants
Pigeons are beautiful animals, but I'm saddened that most pigeons we see on streets and in cities are (decendants of) pets who just wanted to find a way home :'(
Exactly. Pigeons can fly all the way back to their home and land in it, but when I run back to my first childhood house I'm "that homeless person that escaped the asylum" and "the cops are being called". What a messed up society.
Found an injured pigeon wearing a leg-band while cycling and brought it home. Was able to use the internet to find it's owner, and learned a bit about pigeon racing too. They are underrated. There is a good Vice episode about pigeon racing. It's equivalent to the horse racing here in the USA.
I hate people that abuse pigeons over ‘pretty birds’ because they are pests. One time I was at the Smithsonian Zoo, sitting at the food court and saw a father teaching his kid to kick at pigeons so they don’t eat the food for the smaller birds they were feeding.
crz7 7777 .... we raise a local type called baladi for food though we only take some of the young and keep the rest.. but also alot of teens and young men raise fly and keep a variety of types of pigeons we don't eat those... there is a big market here we have Australian english sha2lbaz absy masaweed and lots of other types
@@acek2016 dude they're plentiful in number of breeds, all kinds and colors, and they're calm around humans and once they mate and lay eggs they will always return if you let them fly Or as we say in persian, Wing them
Just means they were built for spotting movement from the air and we weren't. That's how they eat. The better beat us at it they need to do it to survive.
Doesitmatter? Kinda hard for pigeons to hover or lift anyone out of the ocean, using their own wings. Might as well point out that humans can swim, so we don't need the helicopter either.
Joshua Pearce you're missing the point that pigeons are only used to find people, not save them... obviously this has benifits. For example, maybe attach a button to the pigeon to press once they see a human which alerts the helicopter to the coordinates where they can come to rescue them. There are many feasible applications they can be used for.
Is it just me or do pigeons seem like they got less scared of humans when I was a boy the always flew away and now they just walk around and like they expecting food from us??
@@Br_KN because Nikola Tesla adored pigeons in his old age when he was living in hotel. Some scientists are even joking that he was in love with one of them.
Hmm, but now when I have seen Andrew Dotson's that video where he ranked physicists, I feel bad. Oh, that means I am somewhat a physicist and an engineer.
That's Tom Lehrer. He did alot of satirical songs. One of the most famous is "We'll all go together when we go" . It's actually pretty funny in a morbid way. .😅
They aren't rats. They're flying rats who do lots of damage to crops and with their waste. Also, they do have fleas, ticks, and worms so I doubt you'd want to cuddle with even a caged pigeon.
@@EnclaviousFiraga I do and i have ! I also had chickens and birds that would come and feed would give my chickens diseases. but to avoid all of it I would vaccinate my chickens.
In Fez, Morocco they use pigeon poop in tanneries to treat leather. And the tanners swear by it; they say it's better than chemical treatments (and probably cheaper too).
My grandmother used to have pigeons and doves which my grandpa bought her in guadalajara mexico, once my grandma thought that they needed to be free, she let them out if the cage for her surprise they came right back and sat on the balcony waiting for her, now the whole generation after them lives in a pine tree thats right in front of her house. 6 years later after her passing away the doves and pigeons still sing like they did when she went outside to see them and feed them.
I used to have a peigon he was so trained that he goes for flying alone then comes back back,I never put him in a cage and he used to stop eating when my dad was not home.
Scientists: "Pigeons are extremely accurate at navigating to a pinpoint location even when thousands of miles away!" America: "Let's put them in bombs"
Anson Mansfield Actually, captchas help teach AI robots. It's a pretty interesting process. I hope Vox does a video on it. Unless they already do. But CPGGrey has a good video on it.
Juil Feeding street pigeons is actually not good for them. The reason I say this is because people mostly feed them bread which can clog up their system and make it hard to lay eggs (called "egg bound") or even poop. It's happened to a few of my chickens cause our neighbors would give us bread. When we figured out what was causing it, we told them to stop giving our chickens bread. And they're fine now.
acegirlinastraightworld i live by the Erie canal and there are tons of pigeons so these kids decided to sell small dried bits of corn kernels and none of the pigeons, ducks, or even geese seem to have problems.
1:41 THAT IS NOT, the story of Cher Ami, Dear friend in french. October 4, 1918 WW1 ! ! ! . . Lost American Battalion 77th Infantry Division, known as "The Liberty Division", Entrenched on all Sides by German troops trained to shoot the only communications left, Pigeons. 200 Men remain out of the 500 in just several days and all other Pigeons have been killed. With defenses failing the only commander Major Whittlesey fits the last bird with a message, it was Cher Ami. He sets out over the battle field. Germans See the bird rising from the brush and begin to fire. He is shot through the CHEST, Blinded in One eye and his Leg hanging on by one tendon. The troops see this as their defeat as all hope is lost, but Cher Ami kept going. He flew through more bullets then anything in history and flew 25 miles in 25 minutes. Finally he reached American headquarters and saved 194 men!!!!! He lived to tell the tail despite having a quarter sized whole in his chest from the bullet. Fitted with a Peg leg and awarded the highest metal of Honor for an animal Cher Ami remains a Legend to this day. 100% True, not kidding.
Damstraight68 It sickens me that pigeons were used by humans, sacrificed for them and they are still hated. Also, a peg leg and a medal for getting shot, losing a leg, losing an eye, and saving 194 men? That definitely doesn't compensate for Cher Ami's losses. Cher Ami's whole family tree should have been blessed and treated like royalty!
Siskin's Bits and Bobs I'm pretty sure you wouldn't think they are so adorable if you have a balcony and they do everything they can to come there and take a shit so you have to clean every day. Also every morning you wake up at 5 for hearing their wonderful moans outside your balcony or on your balcony.
“This video will change how you look at pigeons,” you say “Will it tho?” I ask my pigeon, who looks at me confusedly from the windowsill. (Rumor says hello)
@@Gameworks1407 true though, but we are the ones using our 100 billion neurons for killing, making fun of our own pets (the cats and dogs movie, the myth about cats hating dogs, and cat comics that don't actually say anything about cats at all), ''peta'', veganism (we are omnivores), pollution, and murder.
Ueapop Pannopas You may be thinking of bird called the Passenger Pigeon, which was pretty much wiped out in the 19th century. It's a different species than the pigeon in our video. Here's more info about the Passenger Pigeon: www.audubon.org/magazine/may-june-2014/why-passenger-pigeon-went-extinct
That's Tom Lehrer, he wrote songs about politics and society in the 50s, including few songs about nuclear fallout. I haven't played Fallout, but it's probably possible some of his songs made it in to the series.
The very reason I dislike fireworks is that they hurt wildlife, especially birds like pigeon. Those thug pigeons who are trafficking guns and phones to the prisons though lol 😬
I know, right? I love pigeons as well, and they're really funny to watch. Plus they're so chubby that they have to flap their wings so hard that they slap together. At least that's what I like to imagine that really loud flapping sound you hear when pigeons fly and not other birds is, haha. Apparently they actually do it to scare away predators, but my chubby pigeon mental image is the one I prefer.
Pigeons are totally underestimated..they are truly remarkable animals!! They are part of the small bunch of animals that can recognise themselves in a mirror too!!
"these b* can f^ guide our missiles" Okay I'm sold, but also it's pretty lit that they're capable of finding survivors at a higher rate that literal humans.
In Warsaw (PL) there's a park called Łazienki Królewskie (Royal Bathrooms..? I swear it sounds a lot better in Polish :) where the pigeons are literally conditioned to eat from people's hands and behave more like parrots than anything. I swear to god they're so polite they don't even seem to poop in people's reach.
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When my dad was a kid there was a guy in his neighborhood that would sell pigeons to the kids as pets. but as soon as the kid got his new pet bird out of the cage, they'd fly back to their owner, who'd proceed to sell the same bird to other kids.
I’m gonna try tame the guy outside my window and use this as a side hustle once the pandemic pandemonium relaxes into a recession
Stonks
@@yay-cat 😂😂😂😂🕊
Seems like the short horror film 'Jigsaw'
Merchant : 100
My favourite thing about pigeons: they did a study in Toronto that discovered that pigeons always divide themselves among food sources so that each pigeon gets about the same amount of food. So if you start feeding pigeons at a park everyday, as you increase the amount of food you put down, you will only attract more pigeons rather than feed those initial pigeons more. They have a mysterious way of communicating with each other to equitably divide the food throughout the entire city among the thousands of themselves. It’s a beautiful case of solidarity. If only humans were so progressive...
Its not solidarity, its biological communism
They don't do it because of their good will, they do it to survive, and they are R strategist
That explains why they are successful to the point of being treated as pests
could you link or name the study?
Didn’t know y’all spoke pigeon
I am happy to see that some people actually care about pigeons. Seagulls just go bonkers, yell, and eat your sandwiches, unlike pigeons.
@paper tastes like cardboard Not when they eat your sandwich! I paid subway $10 for that sub!
@paper tastes like cardboarduntil u get vanquished lol
And sometimes they eat pigeons
Pigeons are the cutest. I always carry around seeds for a reason.
@@umokay5285 me too.
pigeons.... our most mistreated war vets.....
I demand that they receive Pigeon Medicaid and Social Security
I'm afraid that distinction goes to the dogs that served in Vietnam. Don't Google it if you are a dog lover. It's heartbreaking beyond words. Dogs like German Shepherds are believe to have saved more military lives in combat (per use) that any other single military advancement. In WWII they literally returned home to parades. Vietnam was an entirely different story.
HomeSkillenSLICE 😂😂😂😂
Pets***
Are they use as food??? Kekekeke
When you realise a pigeon had more impact on history than you.
Are u seeing all pigeons as an individual?
Yes, humans have way more impact than pigeons but still pigeons are cool!!!
@@YerSiNia14 there's the pigeon that saved 200 men...
@@adeeb1787 You missed the point - he's saying pigeons were more useful to humanity than him
@@HanadiH Hmm, yes you're right.
Birds in general are underrated. They are probably some of the most beautiful and intelligent creatures that live on this planet, but not many people stop to look at a bird and appreciate how amazing they really are.
I have nothing against pigeons. They're cool and chill. Unlike seagulls.
I have a pigeon phobia and love seagulls lol
@@alcancass8018 seagulls are evil evil creatures
@@nia.r5988 And I can't help myself to absolutely adore them. They are like the version of pigeons that aren't hellish
@Alcan Cass
Seagulls are way more hellish. Have you tried eating fries when they were near? They agressively attacked highschool students with food where I lived. Pigeons were way less agressive.
I just made the same comment xD
We need to restart the Search and Rescue Pigeon program. 93%? That's incredible.
+luna.mint crows/ravens are really smart too, theres some videos on it
Nowadays, software could probably do the job both faster and more reliably
Yep. They might've found MH370.
i'm not sure actually. most detection devices don't use vision but someform of active sensor. passive ones like vision are very noisy and take alot of logic to identify caracteristics.
We have computers now...
I love how even though vox is a huge channel, they still use curses
@@Mori They usually avoid to. Or just put a beeeep on curses. As if we all don't know anything. It's just annoying.
Many big youtubers don't curse to please and seek respect from their big daddy RUclips.
@@tapeadeadworm Haha true dat!
@@tapeadeadworm rich daddy
Destiny ya there not
The pigeons in the airplane bubbles are so cute hahaha
They are very cute even without being in little plastic bubbles.
Erik Giovani Helicopter
LOL
IKR
I actually think that pigeons are chill af.
PigeonsAreChill you changed your name to it XD
Ikr
@@apigeon1715 shut up pigeon
@@apigeon1715 I love you
yes
I picked up a pigeon injured from a cat attack and wouldn’t fly, I’m still taking care of it, 4 dats later and she’s better. Can’t wait to let her go when she’s okay
I know it’s been a year but did the pigeon make a full recovery?
@@rpa2001 she recovered and I let her go
I used to have a pigeon who had a broken wing, one day he left and never came back. Rest easy Ed ♥️
Thank you for helping her
Coo...
Awh.
+Pigeon do u mind if i inertvew u how does it feel to be underatted
there is a guy called "pigavans" in google..he has 2nd generation baby pigeon that was crossed with hen.. Ask him if anybody wants he showed me a video ....babies are cute and intelligent they resemble hen but that fly high! now he is trying with pigeon and duck cross
Nice troll Astroners, pigeons and chickens, pigeons and ducks can't produce offspring. Similarly to how you can't crossbreed a dog and a cat, because wouldn't that be awesome?
COO COO WHY SUDDENLY RELIGION
Pigeons are also incredibly romantic. They mate for life and care for one another like old married couples. When their mate dies they can get so sad that they refuse to eat and shut themselves away from the world. Some die from this, so I guess you could say they die of loneliness.
Awwww :')
You're forgetting they also cheat with other partners at the same time. Monogamous, but cheaters
Yea, that is what happened to Nick Tesla.
@@soloredz8954 just like humans
awwww :(((
1:23 that parent pigeon “busy raising families of more flying messengers” melted my heart :)
You can't spell cool without
*COO*
Kool
Kewl
XD
I love this, thank you!
KyuCat Cuul.
I honestly really like pigeons, they’re so adorable and the way they walk🥺and they have this sense of mystery to them, like honestly how tf do they remember how to get home when they’re dropped in the middle of nowhere or somewhere where they’ve never been?
There are people who are like pigeon summoners that let them walk on them. I can also be one of those people.
pigeon neck dance and walk style always make me happy.
the same behaviour as the magnetotactic bacteria
Siena May exactly omg!!
Wildly enough they use their sense of atmospheric scents.
Its exstreamly easy to clean up after them... we have a automatic cleaner in our pigeon coop. (The floor is non stick and with a press of a botton moves and the poo rolls off into a trash bucket) they're exstreamly smart buggers and much easier and cheaper to care for than a parrot. A hella alot quieter to.
They purr like a cat and love affection.
i confirm
Can u send some link or something of the cleaner u talking about.i need it
Their poop is easier to remove of they're well fed. The poop people complain about is starvation diarrhea :(
I've never heard of such an auto cleaner, you're lying
@@solar0wind Why, what's that ?..
That coast guard thing is soooo fucking cool
surprised they still don't use it. 93% accuracy. that's insane
Saleela Suwannarak they should really be used because I mean compared to the 38% humans they are better by a landslide
ikr
Yeah
I love pigeons. People think they're common ugly animals, but I love how they look. They red-orange eye markings, the contrast with its light blue contours, its black and light gray colors contrasted with shining green and red and purple fleckles. They are beautiful creatures, and adorable. Sigh... if they go extinct, you'll see the same people who wish them dead moon about how beautiful they were.
They look like they've been designed to look retro. like a modern vespa
+wakaka2waka Not all pigeons are the same color as the common rock pigeon. My grandfather has been breeding them for decades and he has a huge range of different colors.
+wakaka2waka I've been saying the same thing, in my opinion pigeons and even crows are overlooked just by how incredibly common they are.
beau ling I adore crows. They even chase hawks out of their territory sometimes, so I try to keep the crows in my area happy so they'll hang around my property.
+wakaka2waka There a number of Pigeons with pied markings are and they're the most adorable ones!
"They were simply more interested in the task..."
Hooman interest: saving another hooman
Pigeon interest: getting food
This video made me respect pigeons more, but it will not defeat the the fact that I will get mad every time they decided to crap on my car.
i wonder how this newfound respect will express itself
+Nicole Ilag A bird pooping on you is a sign of good luck and coming riches. You should be grateful.
+ruleram1 so i can poop on a pigeon to pay my gratitude
+ruleram1 that's a scam
Nicole Ilag are you a pronstar?
Humans are so disrespectful.
I hate how they will love something or someone until they are not useful anymore, then insult that person or thing instead of giving respect where it is due. Such how they treat the earth and its inhabitants
Solis Invictus True True
humans are the real beasts. they abus everything.
Pigeon: has a good mapping sense....
ALL THEY KNOW IS TO COME IN THE HOUSE BUT DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET OUT!
"These little bastards can guide our fucking missiles"
XD
that's not what she said. she said, these little bleepers can guide our bleeping missiles.
Pigeons are beautiful animals, but I'm saddened that most pigeons we see on streets and in cities are (decendants of) pets who just wanted to find a way home :'(
Exactly. Pigeons can fly all the way back to their home and land in it, but when I run back to my first childhood house I'm "that homeless person that escaped the asylum" and "the cops are being called". What a messed up society.
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Pigeons also make incredible pets; They're extremely affectionate and learn easily!
Also probably the quietest of birds which makes them very appealing as first pet bird
@@neoqueto have you ever heard an owl?
@@phirion6341 I meant pet birds unless you count Yoll. But even she can be loud.
Mine is a bully while the other one is Shy
agreed
Found an injured pigeon wearing a leg-band while cycling and brought it home. Was able to use the internet to find it's owner, and learned a bit about pigeon racing too. They are underrated.
There is a good Vice episode about pigeon racing. It's equivalent to the horse racing here in the USA.
***** That Vice episode is absolute rubbish to anyone who actually has anything to do with pigeons. It is not accurate at all.
So before they are hero getting medals
Now they are getting slaughtered??
Ok its TOP 10 Anime Betrayals
true dat
Sounds like Rising of the Shield Hero
that happens/will happen with almost every species.
Right, it was quite saddening to hear 😢
They're nice until they're useful. Then we just discard them and move on. Human behaviour make me sad.
I hate people that abuse pigeons over ‘pretty birds’ because they are pests. One time I was at the Smithsonian Zoo, sitting at the food court and saw a father teaching his kid to kick at pigeons so they don’t eat the food for the smaller birds they were feeding.
i raise pigeons for fun.. it's quit popular here in egypt... theyre so smart and the little ones are so cute..
Hagag Hamed in Egypt y'all eat pigeons stop lying about raising them for fun
crz7 7777 .... we raise a local type called baladi for food though we only take some of the young and keep the rest.. but also alot of teens and young men raise fly and keep a variety of types of pigeons we don't eat those... there is a big market here we have Australian english sha2lbaz absy masaweed and lots of other types
I do so tooo!!
infinity gg
Ignorant
@@infinitygg367
Nothing wrong with pigeon dining, they are good eating.
Now a chicken is a truly filthy animal!
And quite tasty!
i live in iran, pigeons are wildly popular and Millions of people have them as pets
Seriously? I didn’t know it was possible to keep them as pets?
@@acek2016 dude they're plentiful in number of breeds, all kinds and colors, and they're calm around humans and once they mate and lay eggs they will always return if you let them fly
Or as we say in persian, Wing them
Wow sounds cool!
Is it wildly or widely? I'm sorry I don't speak much English
@@chuckychuck8318 both work, not the same meaning thou
2:56 The pigeon pecking at the televised ship got me dying 😂 we literally trained birds to hate boats
Update: HAHAHAHAHAHA 3:28
Well I will be damed you can tell we are doing something wrong if they score 93% over humans
Just means they were built for spotting movement from the air and we weren't. That's how they eat. The better beat us at it they need to do it to survive.
Yeah, but they get a 0% when they try to fly or build helicopters.
Joshua Pearce
Wings? they don't need helicopter either...because wings.
Doesitmatter? Kinda hard for pigeons to hover or lift anyone out of the ocean, using their own wings. Might as well point out that humans can swim, so we don't need the helicopter either.
Joshua Pearce you're missing the point that pigeons are only used to find people, not save them... obviously this has benifits. For example, maybe attach a button to the pigeon to press once they see a human which alerts the helicopter to the coordinates where they can come to rescue them. There are many feasible applications they can be used for.
i didnt know people hated pigeons
shırxsı only americans hate pigeons
luqman tura no I hate pigeons too
@@luqmanturaki It's prob a bit old, but here on brazil everyone hates pigeons too, ir's like some infestation around the biggest cities
just search " pigeon hunting" you will know how barbaric way people kill pigeon. 😢😢
Yea. I mean in my country or just around my island pegeon can be a pet or farmed. And nope its not as abudant as in europe
Those pigeons playing ping pong was beyond cuteness ❤️
Is it just me or do pigeons seem like they got less scared of humans when I was a boy the always flew away and now they just walk around and like they expecting food from us??
you stopped eating them, for now
@@dofehino5444 Oh, hate comments. I like these people, they always say out of the box. You know what I mean.
Dofe hino Nice of you to let us know you’re a Neanderthal
Dofe hino ah, you must own a fedora as well
In my experience they stay away from kids, as many kids tend to chase them around and stuff were as adults don't do that :)
So whan an animal loses it's worth for us it's worthless? That seems to be a very narrow point of view to me.
You will understand. If take a look at your life. Everything in life is never forever or you would never replace it.
j jarry We have to be evil, because our lives are finite? I don't understand.
Understand that nothing will every stay the same the you will notice why. People are never happy with what they have.
j jarry There is nothing for me to understand. I don't see how that justifies abusive behaviour.
Everything will be come useless. Its just a matter of time. Until its found.
Training a pigeon how to shoot in games
People in the other team: that's aimbot
Me : I used my bird
This was ghostwritten by Nikola Tesla, 100%.
Why?
@@Br_KN because Nikola Tesla adored pigeons in his old age when he was living in hotel. Some scientists are even joking that he was in love with one of them.
@@ekscentar1 Another reason to admire the legend Tesla even more
Hmm, but now when I have seen Andrew Dotson's that video where he ranked physicists, I feel bad. Oh, that means I am somewhat a physicist and an engineer.
@@alienofficial3678 of course, I'm double proud because he came from my country 🇭🇷
The most surprising thing I got from this video is that a guy wrote a song about pidgeons
That's Tom Lehrer. He did alot of satirical songs. One of the most famous is "We'll all go together when we go" . It's actually pretty funny in a morbid way. .😅
Pigey isva house sparrow
Tom Lehrer. He also sang the Elements Song. Maybe you've heard of it.
I love that song...
Check out his song "masochism tango"
I love pigeons , but I always get a little sad when people call pigeons rats . Pigeons deserve a monument for their world war sacrifices .
They aren't rats. They're flying rats who do lots of damage to crops and with their waste. Also, they do have fleas, ticks, and worms so I doubt you'd want to cuddle with even a caged pigeon.
@@EnclaviousFiraga I do and i have ! I also had chickens and birds that would come and feed would give my chickens diseases. but to avoid all of it I would vaccinate my chickens.
I have a pet pigeon
his name is Brendan
we call him Dan
he's a nice fella
Saint Honey nice
@@mrpigeo Stop poking your beak!!
Say hi to him for me
In Fez, Morocco they use pigeon poop in tanneries to treat leather. And the tanners swear by it; they say it's better than chemical treatments (and probably cheaper too).
*_probably_*
Moroccans will do anything to lower the price 😂😂 na9as taman
My grandmother used to have pigeons and doves which my grandpa bought her in guadalajara mexico, once my grandma thought that they needed to be free, she let them out if the cage for her surprise they came right back and sat on the balcony waiting for her, now the whole generation after them lives in a pine tree thats right in front of her house. 6 years later after her passing away the doves and pigeons still sing like they did when she went outside to see them and feed them.
They could have used pigeons to find the missing malaysia airplane.
Bruh it sounds a bit offensive,but logical,but still man
and also missing objects in the Bermuda triangle.....IF possible!!!
pigeons are my favourite animal. idk how this got onto my recommended because i never watch videos about pigeons, but frankly, I'm not complaining .
blueppigeon maybe it’s because your username literally has word pigeon in it
@@GariFFUSA oh yeh ... I thought recommendations rely on search history, subscriptions and things you have watched
Ouh same
Same lol
I used to have a peigon he was so trained that he goes for flying alone then comes back back,I never put him in a cage and he used to stop eating when my dad was not home.
I've always thought that Pigeons are adorable lol
"... and probably because it was pigeons." XD
I'm super glad to see someone typing the exact thing I was going to.
lol that was funny
Scientists: "Pigeons are extremely accurate at navigating to a pinpoint location even when thousands of miles away!"
America: "Let's put them in bombs"
a pigeon won a medal of valor. what have you done today?
As a pigeon I find many of these comments to be highly offensive
+Mahmoud Elsharawy i had a pigeon which killed a parrot that messed up with my pigeon's baby!
You need to go up.
Pigeon Pigeon strengthen your self man
Who needs teachers when pigeons can teach us. they are so smart
*Sees this video* *sees a video called "Sex Lives of Pigeons"* it's not like I have anything better to do
Jack H I see that too xD
Jack H me too xD
yeah right omg me too
same here.
Rhiannon Stubbs my pigeon saw it and told me
hmmm... I wonder if it would be feasible to use pigeons for solving captchas?
+Anson Mansfield Why not...
+Anson Mansfield Once you got them hungry enough nothing can stop them
LagiNaLangAko23 Hi Flips
Anson Mansfield Actually, captchas help teach AI robots. It's a pretty interesting process. I hope Vox does a video on it. Unless they already do. But CPGGrey has a good video on it.
The fact that scientists still haven't sussed out how they navigate is freakin' wild and awesome. I love pigeons.
You've convinced me. Pigeons are amazing.
I will still not feed street pigeons however. That doesn't make much sense.
Juil Feeding street pigeons is actually not good for them. The reason I say this is because people mostly feed them bread which can clog up their system and make it hard to lay eggs (called "egg bound") or even poop. It's happened to a few of my chickens cause our neighbors would give us bread. When we figured out what was causing it, we told them to stop giving our chickens bread. And they're fine now.
acegirlinastraightworld i live by the Erie canal and there are tons of pigeons so these kids decided to sell small dried bits of corn kernels and none of the pigeons, ducks, or even geese seem to have problems.
But if u feed them, they swarm u and that is kool
Greedy Fett
yeah I feel like I'm their mama bird or a godess
@PeachiiBun What kind of seeds?
1:41 THAT IS NOT, the story of Cher Ami, Dear friend in french.
October 4, 1918 WW1
! ! ! . . Lost American Battalion 77th Infantry Division, known as "The Liberty Division", Entrenched on all Sides by German troops trained to shoot the only communications left, Pigeons. 200 Men remain out of the 500 in just several days and all other Pigeons have been killed. With defenses failing the only commander Major Whittlesey fits the last bird with a message, it was Cher Ami. He sets out over the battle field. Germans See the bird rising from the brush and begin to fire. He is shot through the CHEST, Blinded in One eye and his Leg hanging on by one tendon. The troops see this as their defeat as all hope is lost, but Cher Ami kept going. He flew through more bullets then anything in history and flew 25 miles in 25 minutes. Finally he reached American headquarters and saved 194 men!!!!! He lived to tell the tail despite having a quarter sized whole in his chest from the bullet. Fitted with a Peg leg and awarded the highest metal of Honor for an animal Cher Ami remains a Legend to this day. 100% True, not kidding.
Damstraight68 It sickens me that pigeons were used by humans, sacrificed for them and they are still hated. Also, a peg leg and a medal for getting shot, losing a leg, losing an eye, and saving 194 men? That definitely doesn't compensate for Cher Ami's losses. Cher Ami's whole family tree should have been blessed and treated like royalty!
They probably got the name wrong plus why the hell do you care so much?
All fun and games till you realize the pigeons are the real mvp’s
Pigeons are adorable. I particularly love wood pigeons. They are not gross.
Siskin's Bits and Bobs I'm pretty sure you wouldn't think they are so adorable if you have a balcony and they do everything they can to come there and take a shit so you have to clean every day. Also every morning you wake up at 5 for hearing their wonderful moans outside your balcony or on your balcony.
+Zoyer1 go cry
Sudigumi someone got some sand in their vagina i see
Yeah
I feel like this video needed to be a lot longer.
Think about this, the military almost gave pigeons the power to control a highly explosive missile that can tack down aircraft carriers.
"these little bastards" lol I like this host
😂😂😂 same here
"these lil bastards" that shit was funny
DeathByVanity hostess....
I'd bet she's a fat liberal
“This video will change how you look at pigeons,” you say
“Will it tho?” I ask my pigeon, who looks at me confusedly from the windowsill.
(Rumor says hello)
Hmm, by the way good English, man. You might have got straight A in your English class.
@@adeeb1787 I don't know if this is sarcastic or not, but you missed a word there if you were endeavouring for grammatical correctness.
Which word, Pal?
Ok, I got it. My bad.
As i'm watching this, the pigeon i usually scare away, is sitting outside on my balcony railing
im gonna stop scaring it away now
Pigeons lives matter
Shen Shy no u
*gesp someone cares*
@@RokoKaran Lmao you have no reason to hate him/her
@@coldthrenody nah bro they're just tryna start some drama little kids do it all the time when they're bored
ALL animals are precious. Humans, well that’s a different story.
We didn't have to exist.
Mhm
Humans are animals
yes
@@Gameworks1407 true though, but we are the ones using our 100 billion neurons for killing, making fun of our own pets (the cats and dogs movie, the myth about cats hating dogs, and cat comics that don't actually say anything about cats at all), ''peta'', veganism (we are omnivores), pollution, and murder.
Everyone: ew pigeons
Vox: I just think the’re really neat
Bully: Bird Brain!
Me: oh thank you you're so nice
Vox's best video yet.
I've always loved pigeons a lot and I'm glad that more people are becoming aware of their efforts🕊️
Pigeons are the worst no reason to love them they are the worst.
@@JaKingScomez 😡😠😡😠
@@JaKingScomez There’s no reason to love you.
@@JaKingScomez no reason to love you, you are the worst, shame on you.
today can they still deliver messages?
I heard that messenger pigeons have gone extinct
Ueapop Pannopas You may be thinking of bird called the Passenger Pigeon, which was pretty much wiped out in the 19th century. It's a different species than the pigeon in our video. Here's more info about the Passenger Pigeon: www.audubon.org/magazine/may-june-2014/why-passenger-pigeon-went-extinct
But don't they do the same thing. I love your vids. Subbed
+Depressingly Funny yea they will carry, messages, drugs and cell phones for you, free of charge.
+Depressingly Funny That's Passenger Pideons.
+Depressingly Funny People in jail use them to smuggle things into prisons
Why does that guy in the end have a strange Fallout-y feeling to it.
That's Tom Lehrer, he wrote songs about politics and society in the 50s, including few songs about nuclear fallout. I haven't played Fallout, but it's probably possible some of his songs made it in to the series.
Black and white and the 1900s feel? Yup.that feeling is fallout-y
Me: wants to go to bed and sleep
Also me: Look, a video about underrated pigeons
that song at the end is a bit demented
Probably the point
+hello It's a Tom Lehrer song. He wrote The Element song with all the chemistry elements in them. Most of his songs are crazy or witty in a way.
+hello Tom was actually a Harvard prof of.... mathematics I believe.
scyther1 yeah but almost all maths teachers are weird
Pidgeons are really cute! I call them City Doves. They are only gross because we are gross! People living on the streets are not very clean either.
Imagine a police officer arresting a pigeon for smuggling drugs
A flying rat. The symbol for peace, used for missile guiding xD
GTA IV.. I remember the reference
they should better be called Surfin' Birds
I have a pigeon. I find they're more like flying rabbits than rats.
Lelelelelel
YTisMEH ThisisBS Isn't the dove the symbol of peace?
Look at a dove and pigeon side by side my man, tell me what you see.
Thank you for giving pigeons a respectable advertisement.
They've always been my favourite bird. Broke my heart when they removed them from Trafalgar Square.
Loved the video. I breed pigeons. The pigeon in my profile picture wearing a bow tie is a breed of pigeon that does back flips. (Birmingham Roller)
if you breed them, then why is it a good video??
I love pigeons, they are so cute!!!!!!
+Electro-Cute Aww poor pigeons :(
+Electro-Cute I think they are beautiful too.
+Electro-Cute even i like puras ..i have pure 100 kattu-pura with me...it leaven in morning come back late evening
I think pigeons are cute too. :) AND I LOVE THEIR SOUNDS. COO COO :D
You are the rarest person I've ever seen. Someone who loves pigeons. Same tbh
Day 42 in quarantine, I’m looking at videos dedicated to Pigeon’s contribution to world history
The very reason I dislike fireworks is that they hurt wildlife, especially birds like pigeon. Those thug pigeons who are trafficking guns and phones to the prisons though lol 😬
For my tenth birthday I got ten white homing pigeons. I love pigeons.
Pigeons that were in WW1: Are u sure about that
Who thinks pigeons are gross? They're cute
Tobias yeah.
It takes a great amount of intelligence in the animal kingdom to be able to adapt to the conditions human civilization.
"pigeons can guide a missile"
pigeon: yes humans... fear us....
I don't hate on pigeons, Sarajevo is full of them, and they make it more beautiful
I love pigeons... They're so cute... How could anyone hate them?!
I know, right? I love pigeons as well, and they're really funny to watch. Plus they're so chubby that they have to flap their wings so hard that they slap together. At least that's what I like to imagine that really loud flapping sound you hear when pigeons fly and not other birds is, haha. Apparently they actually do it to scare away predators, but my chubby pigeon mental image is the one I prefer.
As a pigeon expert pigeons are the greatest birds of society
I find all birds really cute, which includes pigeons.
Pigeons are totally underestimated..they are truly remarkable animals!! They are part of the small bunch of animals that can recognise themselves in a mirror too!!
Wow... I never knew that ¿..
A pigeon delivered a message even though being shot in the leg and managed to save soldiers lives, meanwhile my dog can't even do fetch.
a pigeon flew to my house everyday and that is when i fell in love with them 🐦
"these b* can f^ guide our missiles" Okay I'm sold, but also it's pretty lit that they're capable of finding survivors at a higher rate that literal humans.
In Warsaw (PL) there's a park called Łazienki Królewskie (Royal Bathrooms..? I swear it sounds a lot better in Polish :) where the pigeons are literally conditioned to eat from people's hands and behave more like parrots than anything. I swear to god they're so polite they don't even seem to poop in people's reach.
Me: *pigeons are second favorite animal*
Vox: Everyone hates pigeons
Me: :/