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Oakland firefighters saved a pigeon, and the internet is losing it (oaklandside.org)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by P00ptart@lemmy.world to c/goodnewseveryone@piefed.social
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"The Oaklander was unable to locate the pigeon for comment"

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[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They survive just fine, but they were bred to like people and we're treating them like shit.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

They were not bred to like people. Snopes even has a whole article on it. https://web.archive.org/web/20260706224441/https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/pigeons-domesticated-instincts/

There are colonies of feral pigeons that don’t come into contact with humans anymore and they’re doing fine