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[Philip] Skinner found that you can actually train pigeons
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Strangest Things

Skinner found thatyou can actually train pigeons to do some prettycomplicated things,...

[Philip] Skinner found that
you can actually train pigeons to do some pretty
complicated things, things that certainly
you'd never find birds doing normally. So for example, he trained them
to play ping pong

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[Philip] Skinner found that you can actually train pigeons
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to do some pretty complicated things,
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things that certainly you'd never find birds
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doing normally. So for example,
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he trained them to play ping pong.
Duration
13 seconds
Views
28
Timestamp in Movie
00:24:05
Uploaded
May 30, 2025
Season
1
Episode
4
Genres
documentary
Production
A+E Networks,Blink Films

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Movie Summary

From a piece of meteorite found in Tutankhamun's tomb to the Crown of Thorns, explore some of the most perplexing and unusual objects lying hidden away in museums, laboratories and storage rooms.
S01 • E02 [Dr. Graham] Towards the start of the text, - Strangest Things 00:10
[Dr. Graham] Towards the start of the text,
S01 • E06 [Kevin] Pernier was also responsible - Strangest Things 00:09
[Kevin] Pernier was also responsible
S01 • E03 The conspirators who were found guilty of being part of this plot - Strangest Things 00:10
The conspirators who were found guilty of being part of this...
S01 • E05 The socket is actually a lotus flower - Strangest Things 00:06
The socket is actually a lotus flower
S01 • E07 Could they crack the secrets of the Voynich manuscript? - Strangest Things 00:04
Could they crack the secrets of the Voynich manuscript?
S01 • E09 Theremin goes to Paris, London, New York - Strangest Things 00:09
Theremin goes to Paris, London, New York
S01 • E08 [narrator] It's clear Heisenberg's uranium machine never works, - Strangest Things 00:10
[narrator] It's clear Heisenberg's uranium machine...
S01 • E05 The glass bulb itself seems to be representative - Strangest Things 00:07
The glass bulb itself seems to be representative
S01 • E06 And in its collections - Strangest Things 00:08
And in its collections
S01 • E10 The stone of this arcs is a kind of measurement device - Strangest Things 00:09
The stone of this arcs is a kind of measurement device
S01 • E01 The ark tablet tells the story of Noah and his boat - Strangest Things 00:06
The ark tablet tells the story of Noah and his boat
S01 • E02 They may have existed at one point, - Strangest Things 00:14
They may have existed at one point,
S01 • E03 [narrator] 28 of them are sentenced to death. - Strangest Things 00:05
[narrator] 28 of them are sentenced to death.
S01 • E04 [playful music playing] - Strangest Things 00:15
[playful music playing]
S01 • E07 [Abigail] The images on this text - Strangest Things 00:06
[Abigail] The images on this text
S01 • E03 Royal members of the plot are ordered to commit suicide. - Strangest Things 00:04
Royal members of the plot are ordered to commit suicide.
S01 • E09 [narrator] By the time Theremin returns to Russia in 1938, - Strangest Things 00:07
[narrator] By the time Theremin returns to Russia in 1938,
S01 • E05 And finally at the bottom, - Strangest Things 00:10
And finally at the bottom,
S01 • E01 But is there another ancient tablet - Strangest Things 00:06
But is there another ancient tablet
S01 • E06 There is a set of symbols engraved - Strangest Things 00:10
There is a set of symbols engraved