Pigeon Intelligence

Did you know that pigeons are intelligent?  Yes they are and please do not call them rats with wings!

• The pigeon can recognize all 26 letters of the English language.
• They can be taught relatively complex actions and response sequences, and can learn to make responses in different sequences.
• In scientific tests pigeons have been found to be able to differentiate between photographs and even between two different human beings in a photograph.
• A study conducted at Keio University in Japan demonstrated that pigeons could learn to distinguish between a Van Gogh and a Chagall paintings, based on multiple feature cues, such as color and pattern.
• Pigeons can remember large numbers of individual images for a long time, for example hundreds of images for periods of several years. 

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