Something seems strange about
this story. A homing pigeon took off from Malung, Sweden. It was supposed to head for Tangenveien, Norway. Instead it ended up in Tångenvägen, Sweden. It went to the wrong country, but it found a nearly identical street address. Could the bird have been reading street signs? I doubt it, but that's what the media is suggesting. From what I've read, researchers still don't completely understand how homing pigeons navigate, but some believe they follow landmarks on the ground (such as roads). But even if this is the case, I don't think they can read.
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"A homing pigeon bound for Norway landed in Sweden instead, but the bird's mistake showed signs of unusual intelligence."
unusual intelligence?? unusual intelligence for a pigeon means it was the one that got out of the way of your car this morning, the ones with usual intelligence are the ones who did not.
Also, I am confused, the story states that the bird ended up at a house with a nearly identical street address but no mention of the street in question. The only similarities i see are the town names Tangenveien, Norway and T
Nonetheless, the story could be true (but not because the pigeon read street signs!). Enough pigeons surely get lost every day that sooner or later one is likely to stumble onto a street with a similar name by sheer random chance, especially if it's a common street name (in Anglophone lands, for example, nearly every town has a street called Main or Elm or Wood).
secondly, why report this to the press, and why would the press make an ass out of themselves by printing it as true fact?
I'm thinking somebody is after self-publicity. maybe the owner is a pigeon breeder and wants his pigeons to be thought of as super smart.
Homing pigeons, as far as I know, go to one spot all the time. That bird was trained to fly to that address. This suggests to me that whoever intended it to go to a different address selected the wrong bird.
Friend of mine wanted to buy a boat, and found one one the Net. He called the seller, and it turned out they both lived on the same floor, the same street, and the same street number. Only on opposite sides of the country.
I don't see the need to attribute this totally useless coincidence to "synchronicity" or any other theory. In fact, I fail to see why it needs to be explained at all.
Personally, I think it can be explained by the syncronizing factor the occultists call Higher Self, The Buddhists; Universal Mind, Hindus call It Brahman and Jesus called it Father Within. I'd say Oneness is a good word for It. The Conscious Substance of All form and phenomena. Pretty simple to understand right?:)
Obvisly this mr. K. is an crazy neighbour of mine, and even more strange, i dont have a clue who mr. K is. I am pretty shure i know most of my neighbours pretty well, its not so many of them here. Im not shure he is for real...
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