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by oniTony 4348 days ago
More generally — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_pigeon

My personal favourite — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon

> Project Pigeon was American behaviorist B.F. Skinner's attempt to develop a pigeon-guided missile.

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My favourite pigeon story would be that of Cher Ami: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cher_Ami
What is with the "Defense of the realm" poster on the right of the War Pidgeon article? Judging by the frame it looks like it should be an image, but you can't click on it...except that it contains a clickable link to another Wikipedia article. And the text is so tiny it's hard to read.

The wikisource says it's class="infobox" and it's a <poem>, whatever the heck that means. Bizarre.

Interesting topics but relatively poor pieces, the above is a featured article no less!