Conveying Feelings in Pigeons (Aves: Columbidae)

Department of Biology, Cantonment Public College, Saidpur Cantonment―5311, Nilphamari, Bangladesh

*Corresponding Author: Ashraful Kabir, Department of Biology, Cantonment Public College, Saidpur Cantonment―5311, Nilphamari, Bangladesh; Email: [email protected]

Received Date: December 26, 2025

Published Date: January 30, 2026

Citation: Kabir A. (2025). Conveying Feelings in Pigeons (Aves: Columbidae). Mathews J Vet Sci. 10(1):99.

Copyrights: Kabir A. © (2025).

ABSTRACT

Keeping pigeons, this is urgent to understand their overall behavior to continue their adequate production. Yearly observation on their daily behavior or activities helped to accumulate this write-up. A small categorical dataset on common and visual behaviors of 30 pigeons (tumblers, bombai, Indian lotan, Bangladeshi lotan, racing homer, gola) was used in R package (Ross and Robert). The balloon chart showed different colors to represent the intensity or frequency of various behaviors of pigeons. Out of 10 behaviors, the result of the brown circles indicated that the most contributing cells in feeding behavior (17.53%) then regurgitation (15.34%) both male and female pigeons. Those circles indicate higher intensity of the behavior of studied pigeons. Those cells contribute about 32.87% to the total Chi-square score and thus account for most of the difference between expected and observed values. Yellow circles represented lower intensity of the behavior. The size of the circles also seemed to correlate with the frequency or intensity of the behavior, with larger circles indicating higher values.

Keywords: Pigeons, Behavior, Expression (Convey), Emotion (Feeling), Instinct.