These “hand-raised” pigeons are confined to India’s National Academy of Fine Art gallery, perching on the copper “branches” of a sculpture rigged with radio transistors. As they hop, scamper and shit about, they tweak the white noise filling the room. Animal rights groups aren’t happy with the arrangement. Read more »
According to new study, pigeons just moved up the food chain with new data suggesting they can count. Tests conducted on the lowbrow birds at University of Otago in New Zealand proved that their math abilities were on par with monkeys, a trait most smart-people-types assumed was exclusive to primates. Read more »
Brooklynite photographer Aaron Wojack taps into NYC’s avian subculture. Call them “flying rats” all you want, but for some New Yorkers, pigeon flying is their “salvation from daily life” and “the streets.” Check out stellar shots of rooftop coops and pigeon flyers looking skyward below. Read more »
Even if New Yorkers don’t really respect pigeons and call them tree rats and such, they’re still our tree rats and the thought of hillbillies roaming the city streets with nets capturing Gotham’s iconic dirt-covered birds is just as revolting as the caged shoots they’re being sold for. So until this is resolved, the pigeon is getting upgraded to peregrine hawk status or something, which means if you fuck with it, you’re fucking with us. Game on.
Harlem World’s naturalist blogger, James O’Brien of Yojimbot, captured photos of a pigeon murder in progress and the killer escaping with the evidence.
Photo: James O’Brien
Well, that didn’t take long. After Mike Tyson announced he’ll begin filming for a new pigeon racing show to air on Animal Planet, PETA used the opportunity to slam him: “Tyson’s claim to care about pigeons is rather incredulous given that he chooses to tout using them in a ’sport’ that—like horseracing—exposes them to danger and death.”
The ballroom dancing/paparazzi head pounding former heavyweight champ’s relentless mainstream presence continues. Mike will host “Taking on Tyson,” a pigeon racing show on Animal Planet. The boxer has always loved birds, keeps a few hundred at lofts in NJ and Brooklyn and was originally inspired to box by his pigeons: “I never hurt anybody until somebody hurt one of my birds.”
Image: Getty
New York City isn’t the only place overrun by pigeons: a flock of the dirty birds take flight at Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Photo by Nayan586
There’s no better way to end the week than with a short clip of pigeons fucking. Even with the footage slowed down, this is by all means a quickie. It was either this or a video of a soon to die mouse on the street struggling to get out of a glue trap—which is by far one of the cruelest methods for killing vermin, and this coming from a rodent hater.
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