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doves that voluntarily bring people eggs
Homing pigeons are bred to lay lots of nutritionally complete eggs while maintaining their urge to revisit a preferred place. Then doves bearing voluntarily given food visit nomadic individuals solving hunger as well as society. | |
Homing pigeons are bred to lay lots of nutritionally complete eggs while maintaining their urge to revisit a preferred place. Then white doves bearing voluntarily given food visit nomadic individuals solving hunger as well as society.
Imagine wandering the earth, with a flock of friendly doves cooing
as they voluntaily leave you an entire 24 hours supply of food. wander where you will, they seek you out. They are homing pigeons bred to lay lots of eggs.
now that you have sufficient food, you can wander as you like with all society optional.
Pigeon Pie Delivery Service
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[UnaBubba, May 30 2012]
At my favourite winery
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I did one similar to this about three weeks ago,
where the
pigeons
came to you to be killed and baked into pies. Pigeon
Pie Delivery Service? |
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Homing pigeons are trained to continually return to a
single location. Nomadic peoples move from location to
location. The pigeons will not just automatically fly to
wherever the nomads are going next. |
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Nomadic tribes are not typically suffering from starvation.
When they can no longer procure enough food, they move
on. |
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Ending hunger will not "solve society." |
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All that said, this isn't the worst idea you've ever come up
with. |
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Obviously any idea that involves animals doing bidding gets a bun from me. |
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//Ending hunger will not "solve society."// |
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No, but drastically increasing it will, eventually. |
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wow [unabbubba], awesome coincidence. I actually was ignorant of your item. I am thinking this is nifty as it replaces "companion predators" with companion vegetarians. With this version of course all the creatures live, enjoying voluntary activity as well. |
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The eggs could be genetically engineered to taste delicious raw. kind of a puzzle though, thaumatin is sweet tasting protein so I suppose that might work |
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Breed the homing pigeons to be cleverer, noticing the persons camp style, or possibly a visible "flag" they sought out. |
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You could switch from pigeons to geese, ducks or turkeys, on the proviso that you are present during their hatching, and they "imprint" on you as their mother. This would solve the nomadic/following-around problem - although getting the immature birds to lay eggs might be tricky. The alternative might be to breed them so that the "following" instinct continues into adulthood. |
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man cannot eat eggs alone - he'd be totally constipated. |
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//man cannot eat eggs alone - he'd be totally constipated//
True, but he could trade them with nomadic pig herders.
Or music-festival goers. |
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//True, but he could trade them with nomadic pig herders.
Or music-festival goers.// |
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Not if you opt out of society. |
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I think by the second day of eggs I would be ready to
rejoin society. |
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Not that smitten with the eggs either but the idea of
suddenly having doves arriving on my shoulder has a
charm all its own, like being St F of A. |
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Get used to twin streaks of shit running down your back. |
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Nothing like focusing on the positive. |
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Doves that voluntarily start a fire and skewer themselves
over the flames. |
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Well now there's a question; did Saint Francis ever get shat on? ...and if so, was it good luck? |
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Most Catholic priests get shat on at some point,
[2fries]. |
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I envision an advanced race of beings that happens to
think human eggs are tasty. They would train humans to
come in for egg removal surgery... |
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Then use them to breed babies and use up the
unused eggs to breed babies to eat... |
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Human females are born with full stock of eggs. |
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So are most other females. |
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