Training a pigeon to be your cycling partner

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Do you have a cycling partner? Cycling alone can be boring, but some people may take the “look for a partner” too far. Jeff Daniel, from Wigan (UK) races his pigeon. He goes in his bike, the pigeon flies.

He raised his pigeon (Prince) since he was just a few weeks old, thus the bird considers Jeff his parent.

But he was the first surprised after the bird started following him when he went jogging.

He started to increase the distance between Prince and him, whistling the bird to come back to his hand. And then one day, he started cycling, with the bird flying alongside.

All pictures CC from Flickr (link1, link2, link3, link4)

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