So how did the researchers test this? Here's how Discovery News explains the experiment: "To do this, they presented the pigeons with three images containing one, two, or three objects.

Last week, on General Electric’s Science Forum broadcast, he described the pigeon experiments he has been doing for the Army Signal Corps. Yeagley began with the idea, not original with him ...

[Jeff] sets up an experiment to send 3 TB of data by homing pigeon a distance of one mile to establish a baseline. Next, [Jeff] sends the same 3 TB of data over the internet, and donning the cap ...

(A) The flight experiment scene consists of a 16 m × 5 m × 3 m space, with 30 motion capture cameras set up. The pigeon takes off from a perch at one end and lands at the other. (B) Markers on ...

The experiment was relatively simple. The pigeons were placed in a harness, and as they pecked away at a small grain dish, their head movements would steer a small cart towards a bullseye.

It is one in which I have never lost faith." BF Skinner's Project Pigeon experiment. This involved training pigeons to pilot bombs. Picture: BF Skinner /PA Wire The anatomy prize went to a team of ...

Additionally, the story has been updated with information regarding the joint forestry experiment and the positive potential for passenger pigeon de-extinction from Revive & Restore. The passenger ...

For this experiment, Turner along with Edward Wasserman, a University of Iowa professor, studied 24 of the type of pigeon you’d see in the wild, if the wild was the local parking lot at a strip ...

To minimise harm to the pigeons, the experiment was also carried out just prior to the roosting season, to prevent injury to the fledglings, which are flightless. Using a laser pointer technique ...