Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Odisha’s carrier pigeon service still maintains a fleet of ...

Today, if you want to send a message to a distant location, you’ll probably send an e-mail or a text message. But it hasn’t always been that easy. Military commanders, in particular, have always ...

Military working dogs get plenty of well-deserved credit for their vital role in sniffing out bombs and patrolling the bases of the U.S. armed forces. But they are far from the only animal to have ...

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In the seminal film John Wick: Chapter 2, Laurence Fishburne plays the Bowery King, an operative who runs a clandestine pigeon network under the cover of abject poverty. His birds work behind the ...

A carrier pigeon that saved soldiers in WWI can now be found at the Pentagon. In the third floor hallway of the Pentagon, just outside the Army Chief of Staff's office, there is a pigeon. Walking the ...

Thursday, June 6, marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day — when Allied forces launched the largest amphibious attack in the history of warfare on the beaches of Normandy, France. To mark the occasion, ...

SEATTLE (AP) - Keith Chadd has always loved pigeons. He found his first bird when he was 5 years old, in Coos Bay, Oregon. His parents were chopping wood on the beach and he crawled underneath the ...

IN NATURE (vol. xviii. p. 682) it is stated that carrier pigeons are being “turned to useful account” in a new direction in Germany, for Consul Ward writes to the Foreign Office “that the successful ...