KNESSELARE, Belgium—Deep-pocketed Chinese investors have ruffled feathers across Europe by snapping up prized assets, from ports to power plants. Now they’re buying pigeons. Their targets aren’t the ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Odisha’s carrier pigeon service still maintains a fleet of ...
It is true that humans domesticated pigeons for centuries, and feral pigeons do largely stay in urban environments because we brought them there. They are highly trainable, and if fed by humans, they ...
The European wood pigeon helped me appreciate its omnipresent city cousins. By Ben Crair If familiarity breeds contempt, then no wild animal has made itself more loathsome to humanity than the city ...
Steve Portugal does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
KNESSELARE, Belgium—Deep-pocketed Chinese investors have ruffled feathers across Europe by snapping up prized assets, from ports to power plants. Now they’re buying pigeons. Their targets aren’t the ...