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5 POINT 5 POINT: Brain Topic: 5 True Stories of a "Dove" Too Smart to Be Just a Roadside Animal

--- 1. Pigeons recognize human faces more accurately than they think. Research from Université Paris Ouest found that pigeons can recognize human faces more accurately, even if that person changes clothes or hairstyles, and also distinguish whether anyone has ever treated them well or badly. 📚 Source: ScienceDirect - Animal Cognition, 2011

--- 2. It also reads "Simple English Words"! A team of scientists from the University of Otago, New Zealand found that pigeons can separate real and fake words in English using font sequence recognition - like a child who just learned to read! 📚 Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016

--- 3. Pigeons were messengers in World War II. In World War I and II, pigeons were used to send messages from the front lines, and many received medals of bravery, such as "Cher Ami," who saved more than 200 soldiers by sending their last message before death. 📚 Source: National WWI Museum and Memorial

--- 4.The pigeon brain works very much like a human. Its brain has complex linked neuron structures. Despite its small brain size, neuroscientists have found that it has a human brain-like processing system in recognition, decision-making and learning. 📚 Source: Frontiers in Psychology, 2017

--- 5.Pigeon has a "built-in GPS" that scientists have yet to explain. It can go home accurately from hundreds of kilometers away. Scientists believe that it uses the Earth's magnetic field, air smell and sun position to navigate, but no one has fully understood how it "knows." 📚 Source: Nature, 2013

--- 🕊️ Next time, if you see a pigeon walking on the side of the road - don't look down on it, because it may be "remembering" your face...