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There were pigeons roosting in the dish.
When he laughed, he laughed so loudly he scared the pigeons on the fire escape And the four of them lived in that house near the park.
And the house near the park became a house under ash, so they escaped in backpacks, on bicycles to darkrooms But the loft of Wooster Street was built for an artist, not a family of pigeons, and walls that do not reach the ceiling do not hold in the yelling and the man with basketball hands put his weapons out to rest.
So at least you'll admit that if fruit flies are not as clever as mice, they're at least as clever as pigeons.
I started with my wife, Ryan Phelan, who ran a biotech business called DNA Direct, and through her, one of her colleagues, George Church, one of the leading genetic engineers who turned out to be also obsessed with passenger pigeons and a lot of confidence that methodologies he was working on might actually do the deed.
So he and Ryan organized and hosted a meeting at the Wyss Institute in Harvard bringing together specialists on passenger pigeons, conservation ornithologists, bioethicists, and fortunately passenger pigeon DNA had already been sequenced by a molecular biologist named Beth Shapiro.
Another direct result was a young grad student named Ben Novak, who had been obsessed with passenger pigeons since he was 14 and had also learned how to work with ancient DNA, himself sequenced the passenger pigeon, using money from his family and friends.
The sequence of events: he'll put together the genomes of the band-tailed pigeon and the passenger pigeon, he'll take the techniques of George Church and get passenger pigeon DNA, the techniques of Robert Lanza and Michael McGrew, get that DNA into chicken gonads, and out of the chicken gonads get passenger pigeon eggs, squabs, and now you're getting a population of passenger pigeons.
Well birds are pretty hard-wired, as it happens, so most of that is already in their DNA, but to supplement it, part of Ben's idea is to use homing pigeons to help train the young passenger pigeons how to flock and how to find their way to their old nesting grounds and feeding grounds.
We'll get help from Bob Lanza and Mike McGrew to get that into germ plasm that can go into chickens that can produce passenger pigeon squabs that can be raised by band-tailed pigeon parents, and then from then on, it's passenger pigeons all the way, maybe for the next six million years.
These are pigeons in Rotterdam.
Americans consider lobsters more important than pigeons but also much, much stupider.
Nothing was left but the pigeons he raised and a jacuzzi, a bathtub that he got from Tel Aviv.
Maybe it has to go back and live with family members; that's not always a good thing, but it does sort of bring pigeons together again.
So I kind of came up with this old guy who spends his life looking after sick pigeons.
There's a real bond that develops between this old man and these pigeons.
And he finally gets enough strength together to climb up the ladder onto the roof, and all the pigeons, a la Red Balloon, are there waiting for him and they carry him off over the walls of the city.
This pigeon does something that most homing pigeons do not do: it takes the scenic route, (Laughter) which was a device that I felt was necessary to actually extend this book beyond about four pages.
One group of scientists showed the power of operant conditioning by teaching pigeons to be art connoisseurs.
Using food as a positive reinforcer, scientists have taught pigeons to select paintings by Monet over those by Picasso.
When showed works of other artists, scientists observed stimulus generalization as the pigeons chose the Impressionists over the Cubists.
Maybe next they'll condition the pigeons to paint their own masterpieces.
Some were as small as pigeons, and some were the size of a school bus.
I don't even think pigeons belong in pigeonholes.
And before I explain that little oppositional cat I just threw amongst the thinking pigeons, let me also tell you this: quitting launched my comedy career.
As the sun rises on a fall morning in 55 BCE, Camma lays two pigeons on the altar at the center of her village.
The last shot of the movie is Eastwood and Russo sitting together on the steps of the White house watching the pigeons to gentle, peaceful music and I felt a deep feeling of satisfaction.
Strangely, both the woman and her son disappear just days after his visit (leaving behind a pile of dead pigeons on their back porch), and the woman who first complained about the noises, as well as her daughter, are both killed in a mysterious accident not long after that.
Eddie Murphy sells out yet again as a doctor who rediscovers his forgotten childhood gift for understanding the incessant and witless chatter of guinea pigs, tigers, rats, dogs and pigeons.
Notice the garbage trucks and the pigeons.
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