Pigeon plays video game

8 thoughts on “Pigeon plays video game”

1. Dave Chatting says:

   August 2nd, 2008 at 3:15 pm

   Reminds me of Ben Resner’s InterPet Explorer – http://web.media.mit.edu/~benres/parrot/Interpet1.pdf – that was with parrots

2. Shadyman says:

   August 2nd, 2008 at 10:51 pm

   “…Now what did we learn from this?”

   *raises hand*

   “Pigeons have A.D.D.”

3. john.goewert.myopenid.com says:

   August 3rd, 2008 at 5:20 am

   Actually, this isn’t all that new. Back in the 1940’s, the US tested pidgeon guided bombs that they basically trained the pidgeon to peck at the ship on the screen and it would control the bombs. Surprisingly, it worked, but the project was cancelled. The main reasoning was the advent of radio control.

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon

   It was also on Weird Weapons of the Allies on the Discovery Channel, along with bat bombs and B52 bombs.

4. ionymous says:

   August 5th, 2008 at 10:38 am

   Looks like the pigeon is just pecking at the screen.
   Just because a video game is on the screen doesn’t mean the pigeon is controlling it.

   It might think it is seeing food.

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