On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:24:54 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:


"Vera" wrote in message
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On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:55:20 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:

Can you navigate back to your house if let loose hundreds of miles away
with
no previous experience?


Of course you can't. Does that make you stupid?

I am one of the clever ones who can

a) read signposts
b) Ask for directions to the nearest train station
c) Recognise a phone box from a fair distance away
d) Work a mobile phone
e) Read a map
f) hail a taxi

All those need previous experience, which I specified. A pigeon doesn't do
any of those.

You don't know much about pigeons do you? If a pigeon has no
experience of a place it can't deliberately find it. Homing pigeons
have to be trained to return.

I'd stick to bees if I were you.

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