Pigeons Really Deliver In the days before radio, pigeons were often used to deliver important news and financial information. Homing pigeons were also "drafted" into wartime message delivery service during World War I and World War II, as well as other regional conflicts, such as Napoleon's siege on Paris. Many pigeons received special medals and honors for delivering lifesaving messages during the wars. Pigeons are still used today to deliver film for a Colorado white-water rafting outrigger, to carry interdepartmental messages between police precients in India, and perhaps more commonly, in the sport and hobby of racing pigeons. Another thing worth mentioning is that any time you see a ceremonial release of "doves," such as at a wedding, funeral, Disneyland, the Olympics, or the grand opening celebration of a new business, what you are really seeing is a breed of white racing homers. Although pigeons are doves, the birds seen in pet stores and otherwise commonly thought of as doves do not posess the homing instinct of a specially bred homing pigeon, and to release such a bird in this fashion would most likey be to subject it to predation or starvation.

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