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Roller Pigeons doing backflips (:29) sweet footage

submitted by phelixian

1 decade 8 years 1 month ago

16 Comments

I'd mate with that.

Why would they do that? Roll that is...

And Choggie, stop dreaming up beastiality scenarios.

I think it's an evasion technique like racer pigeons do to practice for (not)getting eaten by peregrines.

sweeeet.

dag

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

I knew pigeon would like this one.

ant

Pigeon: Can you roll in flying?

I never knew they could do that!

No audio?

Ivegotthebends says...

I believe it's also a defense mechanism used against predators approaching from above. It rolls onto its back to get its claws into whatever is swooping down onto it. I saw footage of a hawk doing something similar against another hawk on a Discovery channel program.

Roller Pigeons? More like Lollerpigeons!

*sigh* I'm a moron. (But at least I'm good at it.)

arnorsays...

RIALMTO = Rolling in air laughing my tail off...

These are the birds that Darwin experimented with later in life right?

Behaviors are known to be caused by nurture, yet this specific ones are caused by genetics.

Nature vs Nurture. Ongoing debate. Good stuff.

*nominate

This video has been nominated a top video of 2006 (nominate called by gold star member winkler1)

ant

*wings *nature *time=30

Adding video to channels (Nature, Wings) - requested by ant.

*length=30

The duration of this video has been updated from unknown to 30 secs - length declared by bareboards2.

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