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Creature Feature

Listener Questions: Can Pigeons Tell Time?

Creature Feature

iHeartPodcasts

Science, Education, Comedy

4.6911 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

I answer your questions, from pigeons telling time, to whether cats can taste sugar or not! And in the middle I try to discuss yard maintenance, how to have a wild yard without gosh dern rats! 

If you have an evolutionary biology or animal related question you'd like answered, you can email me at [email protected]

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.4

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0:10.2

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0:44.0

Welcome to Creature Feature, production of IHeart Radio.

0:47.0

I'm your host of Many Parasites, Katie Golden.

0:51.8

I studied psychology and evolutionary biology, and today on the show, it's a listener questions episode.

0:53.9

I answer all of your evolutionary biology,

0:57.9

animal, pet, bird, and space and time questions. And I answer emails that are sent to

1:06.2

creaturefeature pod at gmail.com by the way. if you have a question, you would like me to answer.

1:12.6

So let's get right into these emails of amazing questions about animals.

1:19.4

So this email is called Bird Clocks Questions.

1:23.8

Hi, Katie. I wanted to ask about birds' ability to tell time a couple years ago.

1:29.0

I had a job that had me on the same bench every day, and I began to put out peanuts every half hour,

1:34.8

so the pigeons would come and enact their complex, dramatic, and her personal lives in front of me for free entertainment.

1:41.9

Wise choice. Highly suggest doing this.

1:45.2

After a series of events that I won't get into for fear of this email being too long,

1:50.0

one of the pigeons was shunned from the friend group and started showing up to my bench a little

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