Dove
Its scientific name is, the columbidae (Columbidae) are a family of birds of the Columbiformes order that includes the pigeons, the turtledoves and related forms. They are, in total, about 308 species
They are birds endowed with great intelligence (if you compare them with other birds), although among other less intelligent birds an important intelligence has been discovered that has even allowed an interaction between Homo sapiens and birds, although such intelligent interaction ( as occurs between the species of birds called taxonomically Indicator indicator) does not reach the higher degree existing between that of pigeons or between crows and monogamous; this characteristic allows them great care of their offspring and, even, perhaps an important (ethological) affective relationship between parents and offspring. Monogamy among pigeons, on the other hand, seems to greatly facilitate a high reproductive rate (although also, like other wild animals, pigeons suffer from a great "infant" mortality). The young of pigeons, shortly after being ready to self-sustain and sufficiently developed to fly, are expelled from the territory in which the progenitor pair nests, since it usually returns to procreate in a short interval of time two other pigeons to those that the couple, father and mother, spend a great deal of time in care (the mother usually stays much of her time in the simple nest hatching the eggs and then taking care of the chicks while the father or pigeon looks for food to nourish the family).
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The nests, normally weak, are made with small branches, and the eggs, usually two, are incubated by both sexes. Naturally, pigeons eat seeds and fruits. Both sexes feed their young with a very nutritious secretion called milk of crop, which is secreted by special cells.
Apart from having a great sense of direction, the pigeon is one of the birds that flies fastest: it reaches 56 km / h.3 It also characterizes pigeons their most acute sense of sight: between the end of the 70s and In the early 1980s, the United States Coast Guard developed an experimental rescue system with pigeons trained in recognizing bright colors. It consisted in equipping a helicopter with three copies in a small cabin with windows in the lower part of the vehicle, thus covering the 360 ° of the viewing arch. The pigeons achieved an effectiveness in locating floating objects of 93%, compared to 38% of humans in the same conditions. The Project Sea Hunt project was defined by the Coast Guard as the "best daylight search system". This system never went beyond the experimental phase and was canceled in 1983 by budget cuts without the pigeons having the possibility of saving any life.
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Pigeons or Columbidae would pass the mirror test by which each individual of them would recognize themselves as individual or have an awareness of their "personality" (if the word "personality" can be applied to another animal other than the "human" one). since personality means a masking) that pigeons recognize themselves as individual beings or have a self-consciousness is obvious since they can recognize the individual differences of beings of other species, like other intelligent birds and recognize very easily other individuals of the same species; They also know how to recognize human beings who help them from those who attack them. On the other hand according to the most recent discoveries (year 2017) the pigeons are able to "read", or rather to distinguish different graphs and to get to have some understanding between the difference of such graphs.
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Young pigeons are called pigeons, and people who raise pigeons are called fanciers.
Due to the pressure of circumstances (for example the loss of food sources or places to nest, problems that are usually caused by humans), stress can provoke intraspecific violence, in which they can kill each other and kill chicks of other couples of congeners to try to survive.
The species of the family Columbidae are characterized by having a very robust trunk with, in comparison, a small head although the area of the brain is quite developed, the beaks are short and swollen and the short legs with four fingers, one of them opposable such what happens with the thumb They also have relatively large and especially strong wings, wings that make them particularly suitable for flight
Some species have adapted to the urban environment, to the point that they have become a problem in cities such as Venice, where they have had to take measures because the corrosion caused by the droppings of this animal is seriously damaging the artistic and architectural heritage of that city.
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The pigeon is also an animal with symbolic meaning, with connotations and positive or benign denotations in most cultures. In the Old Testament of the Bible it is related that Noah let go a dove from the ark after the Flood to try to find firm ground, and that that one returned with an olive branch in the beak. In addition, in the New Testament, the Holy Spirit descended from heaven with the appearance of a dove on Jesus Christ at the time he was baptized
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