Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast

this week coming to you live from Berlin.

My name is Dan Schreiber.

I am sitting here with Anich Azenski, Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin.

And once again we have gathered around the microphones of our four favorite facts from

the last seven days and in a particular order here we go starting with you.

My fact is that pigeons make better coast guards than people.

Well in one specific way.

What you're saying is they can fly down and pull people out of the sea maybe.

They look good in a red swimsuit.

No they definitely do.

So this was an experiment that was done by the United States Coast Guard in 1976.

They knew that pigeons have really good eyesight and they started training them to spot people

who were lost at sea.

So the coast guard would fly up in a helicopter and they had a little observation bubble

on the bottom of the helicopter and they put a pigeon in there and the pigeon was strapped

on a special couch.

Like on a sofa.

They're on a little mini sofa.

And he must have been half terrified and half very comfortable.

Yeah.

And they were trained these pigeons to whenever they saw in the ocean below them as a tiny

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