CUTTACK, India — Even in today's world of instant messaging, video calls, the internet and mobile telephones, police in India's eastern state of Odisha are preserving a flock of carrier pigeons for use when disasters sever communication links. Dating from the days of British colonial rule when police stations used the birds to communicate with each other, the state's carrier...
CUTTACK, India — Even in today's world of instant messaging, video calls, the internet and mobile telephones, police in India's eastern state of Odisha are preserving a flock of carrier pigeons for use when disasters sever communication links.
Police said the pigeons, which can fly at a speed of 55kph , for up to 500 miles at a stretch, have proved a lifeline at least twice in the last four decades. "We start training the birds at five to six weeks old, when they are placed in a crate and put in their shelter," said Parshuram Nanda, who looks after the birds.
Carrier pigeons took news of the conquest of Gaul to Rome, brought to England the news of Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo, and were widely used to carry messages during the two world wars.
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