#There was this really interesting paper I recently read about how pigeons are especially confusing to people because they cannot be control

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Exactly! And even towards raccoons, opossums, and rats— the sentiment of ‘haha silly trash animals,’ while silly, often feels demeaning. These were creatures that have walked upon this earth for ages before human cities existed, and now because they have learned to adapt to them, they are just funny trash animals? It is just a poor sentiment, and it always makes me do a double take whenever anyone calls any creature a ‘trash animal.’

i want people to appreciate pigeons. not "ehehe skrunkly little trash gremlins. so adaptable and resilient". nothing wrong with that sentiment towards racccons and opossums, but when people do this about pigeons, it shows a fundamental misunderstanding about a pigeon's place in the world.

pigeons were beloved. they were pets, they were tools, they were food. we found use and pleasure in everything about them. then they became obsolete. then they stopped being popular. an animal that we have literally thousands of years of deep history with, completely discarded by mankind to the point most people are ignorant of their existence outside of "rats with wings".