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Eli5: Messenger pigeons (lemmit.online)

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The original was posted on /r/explainlikeimfive by /u/No-Character7649 on 2023-06-26 04:22:36+00:00.

Okay how the hell do messenger pigeons even work? Or like where to go and how to get to the certain spot?

I have a general idea but i still dont understand

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[–] AFKBRBChocolate 1 points 1 year ago

They know one thing: where home is. They're really good at navigating from anywhere back to home. So they'd take the pigeons with them and, when they wanted to send a message back to home base, they'd put it on the pigeon's leg and let it go.