Pigeon taking off (VIDEO)

Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

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Miriam Widmann, a staff member at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, releases a homing pigeon as part of an experiment investigating navigation under overcast conditions.

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Christian Ziegler/ Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

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