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The Hi there. This is Ellen Weatherford.

And Christian Weatherford.

And this is just the zoo of us, your favorite animal review podcast, where we take your

favorite animals and rate them out of ten in effectiveness, ingenuity, and of course, aesthetics.

We are not zoological experts, but we try our very best to bring the most accurate and

interesting information that we can.

And before we get into our animals for this week, I have a little treat for you.

Oh, boy. This was sent in literally this morning. So a photo finish in getting it included on this

episode. A listener to Lara sent in a message and said, so you know how when you talked to a pigeon

expert, you learned that

pigeons are pretty bad at nests. This is also something we talked about recently with the

morning doves, which are closely related. The joke being that they build terrible nests and

in extremely inopportune places. Yes, a common roast on social media. Yes, they're very bad at it.

So, Tilara sent in, here's a pigeon trying to build a nest on an active falcon nest, complete with falcons in it.

Huh.

Which falcons are predators of pigeons.

And apparently the pigeons keep getting chased away, and then they come back and continue

trying to build the nest.

Huh.

And there's photos of this poor pigeon with just like three twigs and its poor little beak,

and then this falcon shows up angry.

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