For millennia they were beloved pets and messengers. We bred independence out of them and doted upon them. Then we invented the telephone and cast them all out into the wild en masse. It’s amazing they’ve survived this well.
They are as we made them, and as we rejected them.
For real?
Lol no
Pigeons are domesticated rock doves. They live on cliffs so the sticks are just there to keep the eggs from rolling away.
I have never ever seen a baby pigeon. Not even a picture. Where are they hiding them?!
I sometimes come across a dead baby pigeon inside my work building, a large manufacturing structure many pigeons find their way into. Presumably the death is from falling out of the kind of nest in OP’s image.
Apparently theh normally would nest of rocky cliff edges and stuff so they just need enough material to stop the egg from rolling away. It still looks heaps silly, though.
perhaps they should just lay square eggs
Like a wombat?
Explain the doormat now
Well they don’t really care about nesting in the open, obviously, and the doormat is softer and replicates short lichen and/or grass. Soft is clearly better and it also means that the egg can’t roll away.
Was that supposed to be gotcha or something?
Yes. You have been gotted.
You don’t always have to do what Jesus says, you know.
