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Fortunately, this issue was solved through experimentation.

The biggest trouble, obviously, was the one-way trip for the birds (over land) before they could be released to fly home. These pigeons would be trained very carefully, gradually being taken further and further from its “nest” before being released and flying home.Įarth’s Magnetic Fields (Photo Credit: Andrey VP / Shutterstock) In particular rock pigeons were chosen and interbred to create homing pigeons, essentially birds that could find their way “home”. Pigeons tend to be easy to capture, quick to breed, relatively docile, and highly “in tune” with their sense of direction. Even after foraging, hunting and soaring for miles in every direction, they were able to guide themselves home.

While studying the patterns and movements of birds, it appeared that they had a wonderful sense of direction, and could consistently find their way back to their nest. More than 3,000 years ago, the first such improvement on message delivery was made, when homing pigeons were first introduced. Honestly, how fast can this tiny horse really run? What if the message is urgent? Therefore, not only was a faster delivery system desired, but also a more reliable one. While delivering messages on horseback or on foot was satisfactory, it also came with a lot of unpredictable variables, including dishonest messengers, accidents, loss of messages, unexpected delays, and a lack of guaranteed privacy. In movies and television (e.g., Game of Thrones), we have all seen homing pigeons (or ravens) delivering messages, but what is the story behind this bizarre ability? How can you train a pigeon to deliver your mail? Just as we now rely on wireless networks and microchips to do our heavy lifting, earlier generations used homing pigeons to deliver their messages across long distances. Writing letters and having them hand-delivered was probably the most basic and long-standing means of communication, but some people wanted to remove the human element entirely. For thousands of years before the advent of instantaneous communication, global networks, satellites, and the Internet, communication had to be done in much slower ways. When you want to send a message to someone these days, all it takes is a few swipes of your finger on a smartphone, but we should all be aware of just how cool, world-changing, and modern this ability truly is. The speed, efficiency, and lack of human variability was achieved by using pigeons with strong magnetoreception skills. The pigeon post worked by training pigeons to fly back and forth between two points, carrying messages to and fro.

Strong Magnetoreception Skills: Aiding in Navigation.

Though the "deleted" mission seems like more of a tongue-in-cheek joke than anything, the game's lead designer Rikki D'Angelo later confirmed that it was originally intended to be fully implemented yet was ultimately cut for unspecified reasons. To rub salt in the wound, he even says out-loud, "Wow, that was the most incredible thing I've ever done." We then transition back to the Postal Dude, who having just carried out his pigeon massacre off-screen is surrounded by buckets of gore and pigeon feathers falling to the ground. Just as the Postal Dude is handed the rocket launcher and the mission appears to start, however, the scene abruptly cuts to a video clip of one of the game's producers, Vince Desi.ĭesi angrily insists that he doesn't have enough money to put a pigeon mission in the game, and so we cut back to the mission with a title card informing players that said mission has been cancelled "due to budgetary issues." That is, except, for an insane feat of animal slaughter in Postal 2's Apocalypse Weekend expansion pack, where players are tasked with carrying out some "pigeon relocation," using a rocket launcher of all things.