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act to them differently than they do actual pigeons. They
have roughly the same awareness, when it comes to mir-
rors, as monkeys.
Pigeons have hearing so sensitive that they can per-
cieve distant storms and volcanoes going off. Oh, and
they can also detect cancer, in addition to their famous
homing capabilities.
So I've got a little proposal for the great city of Butte:
don't fight 'em, join 'em. Put these pigeons to work. Butte
should be at the forefront of restoring the pigeon/human
alliance.
Build them a pigeon milk bottling plant and a series of
porta-potties to befoul rather than uptown brickwork. Get
them little hardhats and use them to send messages from
the Berkeley Pit to Rocker and then to Anaconda. We'll
need a pigeon milk bottling plant. Let's get them direct-
ing traffic with their slow-motion vision.
In fact, if we got them little pick-axes, they just might
be able to mine, too.
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