Claim: Humans originally domesticated pigeons to be companions and prized possessions, and now pigeons cannot survive without humans.
Fact-check: Pigeons Were Domesticated and Abandoned by Humans, Leaving Them with No Survival Instincts?
Verdict: mostly true
Organisation: Snopes
Author: Taija Perrycook
Date published: 2024-05-08T13:00:04