There is nothing more abhorrent to pigeons than captivity and forced mating with strangers from other areas in order to sire progeny that conform to human ideas of beauty. We pigeons know a bit more about conjugal love than humans. Once we have cast our troth, it is for life. We do not cheat, or hanker for a little bit of something on the side. We don’t keep mistresses or glibly utter ‘talaaq’ thrice and renege from our commitment. We don’t devise religions that allow us to marry multiple times. We do not think of monogamy as monotony. We do not squander away the future of our young for a few
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