Sentences with phrase «homing pigeon»

Sprog 2 — aka The Mummy Homing Pigeon — has a sixth sense about when I'm trying to escape my familial obligations.

Here you'll find field recordings of the snipe, the surprising walrus (who does not «coo coo ca choo»), the common virtuoso katydid, and hundreds of others as well, including, of course, the rather more familiar sound of the homing pigeon, a.k.a. rock dove and Columba livia domestica.

While most humans need several types of maps and a compass to find their way home after a long journey, the homing pigeon can return from extremely long distances (more than 1,100 miles) without any guidance.

Otherwise known as «Playing via homing pigeon» you can now play an unlimited number of asynchronous games simultaneously.

While my gait is small and bandied, I have always had a homing pigeon's sense of direction, and for all its twists and turns, Rome had long been mapped inside my head.

* What would be a great name for the unnamed homing pigeon.

Bonus features created exclusively for this DVD release include: hysterical, never - before - seen bloopers; and the «Valiant Training Challenge,» a game which takes you through 3 levels of special training to become a member of the Royal Homing Pigeon Service.

The deficient hero is Valiant (McGregor), an undersized squab who joins the Royal Homing Pigeon Squad during WWII after their ranks are decimated by a neo-Red Baron, German falcon / Marlene Dietrich manqué Von Talon (Tim Curry, no doubt in heaven swathed in so much leather and feathers).

Get ready to fly because this Walt Disney DVD release includes a Valiant Training Challenge — a video game with three levels of special exercises to become a member of the Royal Homing Pigeon Service.

The title character of Valiant is a petite but plucky pigeon (voiced by Ewan McGregor) who decides he'd like to join the Royal Homing Pigeon Service to help his country out in the throws of World War II.

The Main Menu opens with the Royal Homing Pigeon Service information film before fading into a colorful environment where planes and vehicles pass by.

In this mode, two teams fight to the death, while attempting to claim and safely release an homing pigeon into the sky.

The findings present a missing piece in the puzzle of homing pigeon navigation, confirming that winds and odors can indeed work as a map system.

Frankly, using a homing pigeon would be more effective than the non-existent email service many businesses have to put up with.

«Sam is a wonderful pigeon man,» says Ben Watson, president of the International Federation of Homing Pigeon Fanciers, Inc. «Sam De Lucia, well, he really knows when a pigeon is in condition.

Exactly how a homing pigeon is able to find his home is still one of the mysteries of animal behavior.

Homing pigeons use landmarks to guide them safely home.

In other species, including humans and homing pigeons, these cells have always been found to contain magnetite, a form of iron oxide.

But homing pigeons can also build collective knowledge banks, behavioral biologists have discovered, at least when it comes to finding their way back to the roost.

To find out if birds share this ability, Biro and Oxford biologist Takao Sasaki strapped GPS devices on homing pigeons and divided them into three groups: birds homing by themselves, birds flying with the same partner, and birds that switched up their partner every half dozen flights or so.

In the new study, published online today in Science, Dickman and BCM biologist Le - Qing Wu placed seven homing pigeons (Columba livia) in a dark room in the center of a cube - shaped set of magnetic coils.

Pigeons with fantails, manes, and exaggerated crops (outgrowths of the esophagus) were closely related, while the acrobatic breeds, homing pigeons, and breeds with the smallest and largest beaks filled out the second group.

A team lead by statistical physicist Tamás Vicsek of Eötvös University in Hungary outfitted a trained flock of 13 homing pigeons with tiny GPS receivers that could determine each individual bird's position every 0.2 seconds.

The authors note that homing pigeons appear to have a remarkable ability to shift from one home strategy to another, so the results may not hold true for birds on all their travels, especially those longer than 200 kilometers.

«Humans» built - in GPS is our 3 - D sense of smell: Like homing pigeons, humans have a nose for navigation because our brains are wired to convert smells into spatial information.»

Like homing pigeons, humans have a nose for navigation because our brains are wired to convert smells into spatial information, new research from the University of California, Berkeley, shows.

David Dickman and Le - Qing Wu of Baylor College in Houston, Texas, collected seven homing pigeons (Columba livia) and inserted electrodes into their brains to record the activity of individual neurons.

Homing pigeons, like other birds, are extraordinary navigators, but how they manage to find their way back to their lofts is still debated.

When not on assignment, David races homing pigeons with the Lexington Racing Pigeon Club of which he is President.

In time it may be possible to stop using the homing pigeons to lead new batches of passenger pigeons.

Pigeons made for good eating and the unerring ability of a pigeon to find its way home gave rise to another valuable use: Homing pigeons.

Twenty homing pigeons were spray - painted with the Virtua Tennis 2 logo and released during the Wimbledon tennis championships in 2003 to promote the game.

Fun Facts: Did you know that homing pigeons (also called carrier pigeons) were used during ww1 in France to transfer messages by soldiers over enemy lines?

Extension Activities: * How do homing pigeons find their way home?

The double - jointed back hatch, though an interesting tech achievement, seems a little over-designed, like using an aircraft carrier to launch homing pigeons.

Homing pigeons, on the other hand, can be released hundreds of miles away from home, and can find their way back without ever having traveled that route before.

I had everything from homing pigeons, horse's chickens and sheep to name a few.

Beautiful fenced lake Esme, is home to the white geese.The white homing pigeons, colourful fish in their separate pond and three tiny lady dogs complete the menagerie.

Also called homing pigeons, these selectively - bred birds were used to relay messages across battlefields in both World Wars.

Yeah, homing pigeons.

With the point of a finger, you chuck knives, energy shields, throwing stars, and homing pigeons at your foes.

His latest project, «Fly By Night,» builds on an earlier piece in which he trained homing pigeons to smuggle cigars from Havana to Key West.

Catherine Wagley details an L.A. artist's Quixotic efforts to hack freeway signs using homing pigeons.

The gallery will open the fall season with a solo exhibition of Pat McCarthy's ritualized carpentry and vernacular films featuring his practice of keeping, training and caring for homing pigeons.

It may be possible to fly passenger pigeons using specialized drones — but a more natural solution may be achievable using homing pigeons as surrogate flocks to lead the passenger pigeons from one site to another.

In time it may be possible to stop using the homing pigeons to lead new batches of passenger pigeons.

The homing pigeons will be fitted with cameras as well.

Not exact matches

Their words, carelessly spoken, spent the last 40 days in my home — getting creased and folded, worked over, brushed aside to make room for dinner, stepped on by a toddler, read by my sister, stained with coffee, shoved into a closet when guests arrive, blacked out, thrown away, turned into poems, and folded into sailboats and cranes and pigeons that now sit smiling at me from my office window.

Bees home in on brilliant ultraviolet patterns that we see as plain white daisies; pigeons can literally align themselves to magnetic north because of magnetite in their brains.

A few days after that, I suffered a personal loss (as the saying goes, we never thought it would happen to us), then a few days later, I slipped and fell down the concrete stairs at home (earning myself a big bruise on my back and pigeon size bruises on my right arm).