Pigeons

... fixity of species. As regards the first point we now know that Wilberforce is wrong; but on the other two points he was right. Dogs, horses31 and pigeons have been selectively bred for thousands of generations, yet different breeds not only remain mutually fertile, but are liable to revert to ...

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I wasn't talking about a pillow fight. I was referring to a fight between pigeons.

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... to answer why this is the case and what other experiments you might need to test your hypothesis. For example, in birds only some species such as pigeons can do this, but can all fishes? What if you used a different species of fish that also exhibits homing behavior such as salmon? You can also ...

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Seemingly, no one has noticed that Jeremiah, who originally posed the question, having put the cat amongst the pigeons has quietly slipped away, his mischief done. There are twelve pages devoted to this pointless debate and no further interest by Jeremiah. When fundamentalists ...

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... it seemed there was an endless supply (much like Cod a few years back) and no one thought it would matter. Apparently, according to accounts, the pigeons were so numerous that flocks would literally darken the sky with their passing and their passing sometimes took days. It is reported that barrels ...

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