A lot of people, perhaps most people, treat pigeons as pest and vermin. They don’t like the fact that they defecate. They don’t like the fact that there are lots of them. They don’t like the fact that they are successful. Humans don’t like other …
Pigeons are smart. Yes, they are maligned and shot at and generally despised but they are still smart. Generally, people are ignorant about their intelligence. Perhaps people tend to hate pigeons because they use their smarts to survive and this irritates humans. They are one …
This is the strange story of a pigeon who had been abused by young people in a public house in Nottingham, UK. No doubt the pigeon had arrived to pick up some food and the abuse started. Hannah Hall, an NHS worker, then turned up …