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How Pigeons Always Find Their Way Home

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Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/realscience-what-these-pigeons-captured-with-their-cameras New streaming platform: https://watchnebula.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/realscience Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephaniesammann Credits: Narrator: Stephanie Sammann Writer: Lorraine Boissoneault Editor: Dylan Hennessy (https://www.behance.net/dylanhennessy1) Illustrator/Animator: Kirtan Patel (https://kpatart.com/illustrations) Illustrator: Elfy Chiang (https://www.elfylandstudios.com) Animator: Mike Ridolfi (https://www.moboxgraphics.com/) Sound: Graham Haerther (https://haerther.net) Thumbnail: Simon Buckmaster (https://twitter.com/forgottentowel) Producer: Brian McManus (https://www.youtube.com/c/realengineering) Joke Suggester: Katie Sammann Imagery courtesy of Getty Images References: [1] https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/TACANA%20PROJECT%5B15687597%5D.pdf [2] https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/199/1/21/7360/Pigeon-homing-observations-experiments-and [3] https://www.rpra.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/national-pigeon-service.pdf [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Columba [5] https://cvhf.org.uk/history-hub/the-secret-pigeon-service-heroes-who-risked-all-for-the-birds-dropped-behind-enemy-lines-who-flew-home-with-vital-intelligence-and-left-the-nazis-flapping/ [6] https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-Dickin-Medal/ [7] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0701575104 [8] https://www.jstor.org/stable/4084902 [9] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature03077 [10] https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/209/15/2888/16178/Having-the-nerve-to-home-trigeminal [11] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-72525-2 [12] https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/216/4/687/11868/Atmospheric-propagation-modeling-indicates-homing

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