Please Explain: Pigeons

vor 13 Jahren

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Please Explain (The Leonard Lopate Show)

In Please Explain, we set aside time every Friday afternoon to get to the bottom of one complex issue. We’ll back up and review the basic facts and principles of complicated issues across a broad range of topics — history, politics, science, you name i...

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vor 13 Jahren

Pigeons seem to be everywhere in New York City, and they fill city squares in London and Venice. We'll take a look at why these birds thrive in urban areas around the word and how they're able to find their way home from hundreds of miles away. Andrew Blechman, managing editor of Orion magazine and author of Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird, and Courtney Humphries, author of Superdove: How the Pigeon Took Manhattan...and the World, join us.