Homing pidgeon misreads address: intelligent design?

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Weird miss


A homing pigeon bound for Norway landed in Sweden instead, but the bird's mistake showed signs of unusual intelligence.

Last week Gösta Schützer walked out to his garage in Östra Deje, north of Karlstad, Sweden. He was met by a pigeon that was sitting by the garage door, newspaper Värmlands Folkblad reports.

Schützer didn't pay much attention to the bird, and went into the garage, and after a while the pigeon followed.

"It shuffled around behind me like a dog. When I tried to talk to it, it opened its beak as if it wanted to answer," Schützer told the paper.

It turned out that the pigeon, owned by Colin Allman, had attended a homing pigeon conference in Malung, in midwestern Sweden. From there the Norwegian bird was released and was to go home, to Allman's home in Tangenveien just outside of Oslo, but bad weather hindered many of the pigeons from making their trips.

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1097426.ece?rfid=bm