{"id":14068,"date":"2016-09-26T18:41:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T22:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multi.nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/bird-brains-nah-pigeons-can-read-now-and-weve-got-their-first-ten-books\/"},"modified":"2016-09-26T18:41:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T22:41:38","slug":"bird-brains-nah-pigeons-can-read-now-and-weve-got-their-first-ten-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/bird-brains-nah-pigeons-can-read-now-and-weve-got-their-first-ten-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird brains? Nah, pigeons can read now, and we\u2019ve got their first ten books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re coming for our books &#8211;\u00a0via Flickr user Jans Canon Suck it, monkeys: Pigeons can read now, apparently. As Popular Science reported last week, our feathered frenemies may actually be able to comprehend, or at least recognize, written language. A new study from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that pigeons, with some training, were able to recognize 26 to 58 words, which is just a few steps away from being able to read books (and, presumably, eventually killing us all). Rather than run in fear, we here at Brokelyn have decided to welcome our rat-bird overlords with a little reading guide. These guys mostly live in New York City, after all, so once they get the grasp of a few more words they\u2019re bound to be hanging around the Strand and going to readings with the rest of us.\u00a0Here are\u00a0the ten\u00a0books any self-respecting pigeon in the city needs&hellip; Read More<\/p>\n<p>Bird brains? Nah, pigeons can read now, and we\u2019ve got their first ten books : <a href=\"http:\/\/brokelyn.com\/going-to-the-birds-pigeons-can-read\/\">Brokelyn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re coming for our books &#8211;\u00a0via Flickr user Jans Canon Suck it, monkeys: Pigeons can<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5893,"featured_media":14069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2729],"class_list":["post-14068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-brokelyn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v26.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bird brains? 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