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Charles Darwin was fascinated by their intelligence. He kept them as pets, joined pigeon clubs and wrote about them extensively. Pigeons have extraordinary vision and can distinguish between nearly identical shades of colour. They can also read the alphabet, if taught.

While we all know that crows are very bright, few people know about the abilities and intelligence of the pigeon.

Pigeons can multitask – do more jobs at the same time – than humans. In an experiment by scientists at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, test groups of humans and pigeons were trained to do jobs like pressing a keyboard once a light bulb came on. They were also put in situations wherein they’d need to stop working on one job and switch over to another. Humans and pigeons switched between jobs at the same speed. In the tests, where the subjects had to wait one second before switching jobs, pigeons were much quicker.

Full article in Ayurved Sutra Vol. 07 Issue 05

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