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Animals on the underground
Dolphin Girl: Patron Saint of Incoherent Ramblings; Keeper of Flutes and Singing Watches Started conversation Jul 30, 1999
I heard that now pigeons have been observed to get on the underground at one stop and then off at the next but one stop and repeat this journey regularly! Can they really have mastered the underground system before most of the human population have?
Animals on the underground
Merkin Posted Jul 31, 1999
This is completely true and the subject of quite a lot of research at the moment. There are actually "suburban" pigeons, who live in the north and west of london, who quite literaly, commute into town during the day to feed off the rich picking provided by tourists, and then return to roost in the burbs come nightfall.
The question is how they recognise the tube stations, and can this be written into tourist guides. 
Animals on the underground
Peta Posted Jul 31, 1999
Quite a lot of pick-pockets do the same, I believe.!
Animals on the underground
Mole Posted Nov 13, 1999
If anyone has seen pigeons travelling with serious intent on the tube the BBC would be interested to hear from you.
For more details and other amusing anecdotes about animals on the tube visit my page:
http://victorian.fortunecity.com/finsbury/254/tubeanimals.html#bbc
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