Honey bee versus Racing Pigeon
A Pigeon fancier of Hamme, Prussia, made a bet that a dozen bees liberated three miles from their hive would reach it in better time than a dozen pigeons would reach their cote from the same distance. The competitors were given wing at Rynhern, a village nearly a league from Hamme, and the first bee finished a quarter of a minute in advance of the first pigeon, three other bees reached the goal before the second pigeon, the main body of both detachments finished almost simultaneously an instant of two later. The bees, too, had been handicapped in the race, having been rolled in flour before starting, for the purposes of identification. - A Botes  Posted:18-1-2008 |