Found: hideout of some of the last primordial pigeons

Charles Darwin developed his theory of natural selection in part by studying a form of artificial selection: the nineteenth-century rage for pigeon breeding, which created a wealth of fantastical varieties of pigeon (Columba livia). So widespread was pigeon fancying that it seeded the world with escaped domestic birds and their feral descendants, which then hybridized with their wild ancestors, the rock doves.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01780-2

Subjects

• Conservation biology