stackyFACTSYou cannot give them an address; they only know how to return to their absolute starting point. To send a message, you literally have to carry the bird away with you first, making it a frustratingly one-way delivery system.
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Cher Ami was a homing pigeon deployed by the US Army during World War I who successfully delivered a life-saving message despite being shot through the chest,…
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