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Pigeons Are Homing In On Art

Racing pigeons can be trained to study paintings and evaluate them like a critic, according to Japanese scientists who offered the birds food as an incentive to study the colour, pattern and texture of paintings. The birds were shown paintings diplayed on a computer monitor and consistently pecked at those that had been judged "good" by human critics.

FOOTNOTE: Pecking order.