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Scientists Read Pigeons' Brains For The Secrets Of Their Navigation
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kagekiri
06/25/09

In reply to Scientists Read Pigeons' Brains For The Secrets Of Their Navigation
I wonder if people in the city were freaked out by pigeons with electrodes and a transmitter sticking out of their heads. Sounds like an unsettling sight, to say the least.
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Gann
06/25/09

@kagekiri: When I was in college, someone was doing a similar study with the local squirrel population. I was stumbling home after an all-nighter when I first saw one stop and stare at me with a little antenna sticking out of its neck.
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