pigeons
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The Pigeon-Guided Missiles And Bat Bombs Of World War II
Today I found out about Project Pigeon andProject X-Ray, WWII plans to use pigeons to guide missiles and (literal) bat bombers. The man behind Project Pigeon was famed American behaviorist and Harvard professor B.F. Skinner, who teamed with the US Army to develop such a system.
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Early Aerial Photography: Cameras On Pigeons In 1907
These days there are plenty of opportunities to take interesting photographs from unusual angles, including strapping tiny digital cameras to birds. But some early aerial photography was rather more clunky — and used massive cameras strapped to the breasts of pigeons.