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Pigeons: they remember your face

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Here's something I never knew:
According to the RSPB, pigeons – descendants of the rock dove, which have been domesticated in the UK for eggs and meat since the Norman invasion – are capable of remembering both faces and places. If fed they will return to the same location and look for the same people, a sort of self-fulfilling pigeon prophecy: the more people that fed them, the more pigeons returned to the square.

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I have noticed that the pigeons that nest around Whitehaven Marina are quite capable of recognizing people and dogs that are no threat to them - they still watch, but don't fly off. But when someone / dog they don't like or don't know appears, they take to the air.
 
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