A CRAB-AND-PIGEON RACE.
The hare beaten by a plodding tortoise has its match to-day.
Birds seem to us the swiftest of all creatures, yet a pigeon belonging to Wakeham of Jersey has taken two years to fly from Bordeaux to its island home, ft took part in a race with other pigeons, and failed to return. Two years later another race was run, or perhaps we should say flown, and with t'he other birds this lost one returned to the loft. On the. other hand; a crab has walked 150 miles in 18 months. It was, caught, labelled, and released at Aberdeen t and a year and a half later it was found at Portincaple. Loch Long, off the Firtl} of Clyde. As it was a Scotch crab we may be sure that this was no idle stroll but a walk for a prize! Who would have thought a fleetwinged pigeon would find a rival in the humble old crab ?
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20264, 25 May 1929, Page 4 (Supplement)
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160A CRAB-AND-PIGEON RACE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20264, 25 May 1929, Page 4 (Supplement)
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