What's the Deal w/ Carrier Pigeons?

Way before cell phones, email, or even smoke signals, human beings had found a way to communicate across long distances - their secret weapon - a pigeon. Instead of asking why or how? Knowing what we know now about the feathered messengers' uncanny ability to return home, we should instead be asking…. Why are they not still used today? Or are they? https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices