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In ancient times, homing pigeons were used to deliver letters. How are homing pigeons trained?
The training of homing pigeons in ancient times can be roughly divided into three ways: one is to train homing pigeons to arrive at a fixed place from different places to deliver messages; The second is to train homing pigeons to reach a fixed location to deliver messages; The third is to train homing pigeons to transmit information in a certain area.

"Flying Pigeons Deliver Books" has a history of thousands of years in China, and it plays an important role in delivering family letters and military wars. This is because China's productive forces were underdeveloped at that time, and information transmission did not spread through the Internet as it is now. Information transmission is mainly carried out through homing pigeons and bonfires.

Of course, the ability of homing pigeons to transmit information is not innate, and human beings need to train and strengthen their skills. Human training mainly depends on strong homing ability.

For homing pigeons with point-to-point transmission, the training of homing pigeons by the ancients can be divided into the following three categories: first, training homing pigeons to deliver messages from different places to fixed places; The second is to train homing pigeons to reach a fixed location to deliver messages; The third is to train homing pigeons to transmit information in a certain area. These three categories can be said to cover all areas where homing pigeons transmit information. For example, a wanderer who is far away from home delivers letters to his family, that is, he needs to be trained to deliver letters from a fixed place to a fixed place.

In terms of specific methods, let's see how it works: in order to complete the training of homing pigeons from different places to fixed places, the ancients would choose to feed homing pigeons in fixed places, then take them to other random places and release them, which is in line with homing ability of homing pigeons, and gradually homing pigeons formed this ability. And with the increase of training times, the accuracy will be higher and higher.