Yeah, it would be like a person being surrounded by statues of other people.
Which is a little weird, although we do make statures of other people. But we don’t keep them in our houses for the purpose of making guests comfortable. But, they can make a town square or other such public space feel inviting, so, maybe similar? 😅
How we humans are more complex in this sense I think we would need more effort. It would be like some alien hunter put some kinda realistic animatronics to give some life. I can see people flocking more in place with these than in a empty street.
This sounds like a good plot for a horror movie. Could have a nice build up of some people driving through a long stretch of a desert road just to find this town they think has people in it, only to get captured once they get too far inside.
Though I like the idea of the animatronics being kind of obvious, just you can't tell from a distance and it sort of lures you in. Then the person has to check out the animatronic wondering why it's even there, giving the alien enough time to grab them. It's a perfect people trap
Just thought it would be a funny scene :D with the copies of oneself. But yeah, other people make more sense but then again... What if the friend is an artist?:D I'd be more impressed than weirded out.
Also other people make me anxious.
Aaaand I guess it's also funny to imagine yourself as a species :DD as a flock. Idk
Sure, you can easily buy meat pigeons where I live (pigeons raised for meat kind of like chickens). Its considered a delicacy and supposedly makes for the best stock in existence, although I doubt that. Would love to try though.
Their meat is dark, and very lean.
edit: btw i might be the wrong person to answer that question, I'd eat pretty much anything. Snails, crickets, octopus, fermented shrimp, that swedish fermented fish thing, i love it all. the more putrid the better i find as i age actually lol
I tried meat pigeons a few times, theyre not bad. Was kinda like a Cornish Hen in terms of size, but tasted more like a lean duck (and if you havent had duck, a different comparison would be a gamey chicken). If you like duck meat, but dont like the greasy nature of duck meat, pigeon is a pretty good alternative.
Though you have to be careful when cooking it - overcooking pigeon turns it unbearably dry and gives it a distinct liver taste. Theyre not a very fatty bird, so they dry out extremely quickly if not prepared properly. Theyre safe to eat medium rare, and often served as such to keep it from drying out and necessitating a gallon of water with dinner.
And of course, dont eat wild pigeons. They can be crawling with all manner of parasites and disease that you definitely dont want in your gut.
I've eaten pigeon a bunch of times. If you like game birds it's excellent. Definitely not for you if you don't like the iron rich metallic taste of pheasant or duck because it's that but very full on.
I'm just trying to wrap my head around the idea of walking into a room and there being multiple realistic statues of me. What a colossal waste of money on general
A better analogy is if the statues wernt of you but of people you might want or need to interact with
Like imagine getting a medical call, showing up and finding its just a bunch of manikins arranged to look like a medical emergency. And as youre trying to figure out what fresh hell you just walked into and if anyone actually needs your help, a couple drug addicts try to jump you to steal your medical bag thinking it has narcotics in it. Thats closer to what a hunting decoy is, just something to confuse you just enough for you to drop your guard or be distracted enough to not notice the trap youre walking into.
Its just pigeons arent very bright, so theyre unlikely to realize theyre in danger until theyre slow roasting in a crock pot.
No no
Europeans invented shoot first and label later.
I love the art work (I think it'd be more like different vaguely off human copies almost like lifelike manicans)
Aren't pigeons like crazy colorful and we just can't see it? Are these decoys painted with colors that we can't see? I don't see how they'de be effective if now
Also looping this to the comic, it'd be like if your friend set up a bunch of really dark grey statues all over their house
Welcome to Argentina and lots of South America. Where the dove population is out of control and causing a lot of agricultural problems. They eat and shoot them daily by the thousands.
There’s a whole tourist industry to go to SA and shoot doves.
Pigeons and doves belong to the same family and are taxonomically almost identical. They taste relatively the same. Taste changes based off of what they’ve consumed
What you need to remember about the pigeon decoys isn't that pigeons are easily fooled, it is that anyone can be fooled with a good enough decoy.
Also, the human equivalent only needs to fool them long enough for the hunter to line up a shot, so you could probably pose some mannequins near a buffet and that would be enough to catch most people.
Ehhh it’s a bit different, the pigeons have a harder time noticing that the decoy pigeons are fake. Than we would with fake humans. Humans are surprisingly good at sussing out fake humans
I love the thought put into the different poses. Like the friend thought "I need one where she's enthusiastically talking, one where she's listening, one where she's posing, and one where she's taking a photo."
Counterpoint: Pigeons don't differ too much in appearance on an individual level. Humans do. If a pigeon sees a pigeon decoy, they'll think it's just another pigeon and not a doppelganger or a fake copy of itself. There's also the mirror test. Both humans and pigeons can pass the mirror test, but pigeons need to be trained for it, whereas we just understand that our reflection is just that, a reflection.
Plot for a horror movie called "Garage Sale". Wealthy people set up a neighborhood garage sale to lure in young poor people who are never seen again...
Not a pigeon, but turkeys will try to mate with females at ALL COSTS. The most extreme examples are decapitated female heads, so.... with all due respect, I'm not expecting a lot from pigeons on this side.
I live in Italy and my father is a hunter. We have this bird here (Columba palumbus) who is very similar to a pigeon. Cleaned an ate it a few times, it's dry and the taste in a bit on the stronger side, but it's definitely an animal I don't dislike. But since the idea of waking up at 4 am on my free day in the coldest season of the year to go shoot a bird who would gladly keep living, I'll just eat it if my father gives it to me.
I don’t think pigeons have the brain power to be creeped out by anything. These are the same animals that sometimes randomly waddle into a predators nest because reasons
Fun fact: there is a dish that in Poland is called Gołąbki (little pidgeons) and it's minced meat with rice (or groats) and other food stuff (onion, mushrooms etc.) packaged in a cabbage leaf.
I've never eaten pigeon my self by my grandfather was a squab farmer for a period of his life and my father still speaks on the taste, so it is on my bucket list for sure.
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u/GloryGreatestCountry 20h ago
Well, pigeons aren't all the same, so to a pigeon, it just looks like a bunch of other people.
And maybe make sure your friend isn't carrying a hunting firearm.