The pigeon, like other vertebrates, has receptors or sense organs for touch, smell, taste, sight and hearing which are stimulated by the environment. These sense organs are termed external receptors or exteroceptors. The pigeon possesses following exteroceptors: 1. Tactile Organs: These are poorly developed in birds due to feathery covering of the body. Tactile organs of pigeon remain confined to [...]
The Blue Rock Pigeon lives in perfect freedom in ledges, fissures and holes of rocks, forts, old buildings and side walls of wells. It prefers to live in those places of towns and cities which have plenty of coarse grains. Thus, their favourite resorts include big buildings, godowns, grain markets, temples, mosques, churches, tombs, railway stations and office buildings. They [...]
The well-developed nervous system of pigeon consists of the central nervous system comprising brain and spinal cord, peripheral nervous system including cranial and spinal nerves and autonomic nervous system comprising sympathetic and parasympathetic systems. Central Nervous System: 1. Brain: The brain of birds is much more highly developed than that of reptiles and is relatively largest, next to those of [...]