Every day during the racing season, 55-year-old Zhang Yajun wakes at 4 a.m. and carefully loads bamboo cages containing his 76 cherished racing pigeons into a van. Then he drives up to 200 kilometers ...

Despite numerous studies and a variety of theories, no one knows for sure how homing pigeons can always find their way back home. Their amazing ability to navigate while flying 40-45 miles per hour ...

You've heard of horse racing, but what about pigeon racing? There are about 700 clubs affiliated with the American Racing Pigeon Union in the U.S., training pigeons for up to 600-mile races. But ...