I saved my best topics for my Everything you Ever Wanted to Know About Your Racing Pigeons, and then some!
The facets of homing ability.
I learned tons of things from Dr. Anthony A. Wright of the University of Texas health science center at Houston, during the 9 years I was employed there. Circa 1981-1989.
Pigeons are normally binocular, but can be monocular for close up things such as eating grain, etc.
The eye section that interpolates sight is in the visual cortex and is located in the rear of the pigeons skull.
Pigeons see by a means of 16 or 17 areas of the brain located in that visual cortex.
Too close inbreeding can disrupt these areas, making the offspring hawkait.
Too close inbreeding can disrupt areas used in homing.
Inbreeding can produce greatness and weakness. Perhaps 90% weakness to a ratio of 10% greatness.
You must know how to recognize the greatness or go to disastrous ruin.
Scientists tell us the pupil should be large to allow more light to penetrate the retina for good vision.
With top sensitivity the pigeon can do the best of two worlds. What the scientist tells them to do, and then conversely, to go in the exact opposite to accommodate homing procedures.
Pigeons have rods for low light vision used in long distance pigeons to fly into darkness.
They also have cones, for daylight reasons, photopigments, and oil droplets for important reasons we will discuss at the seminar.
Pigeons have computer brains for orientation and navigation.
Using the iris like the lens of a camera, the pigeons can snap a picture of celestial things, and then storing this information in two places called fovea.
I will discuss this in length.
I have a picture of a contemporary 600 milerÕs wing and a 1935 sketch of a Vander shelden masterpiece wing.
I discuss these at length as well as the BernolliÕs Principles of flight. Still used after 300 years of study in aerodynamical fact finding.
What you might not know about peanuts.
What you might not know about garlic. It is not all the same you know!
Find out how pigeons extract oxygen inhaling and exhaling. Both.
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