Why are pigeons so accepting of human presence?
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they are used to us leaving food over to them.
I also never managed to catch or even touch one.
Pigeons have high processing speed of their observed environment: they are able to see and react to the world as if it were moving in slow motion. It both makes you more able to avoid predators, but also more able to not expend energy on avoiding larger animals that don’t want to prey on you, because it can surmise whether or not you are a threat far closer to when you try to strike them. If you are 2 feet from a pigeon: they know you probably aren’t going to kick them, but even if you tried, they would GTFO if you even began to pull your foot back. You see this when there are pigeons just casually walking through traffic with wheels just barely missing them: they knew long before you did what they would have to do to avoid it, and they know that they are inherently more agile than large machines because they have a very keen sense of it from how their life has played out in a slow motion world where large predators fumble over themselves trying to catch them.
Pigeons are not very smart ^([citation needed]) Now humans are also around a lot and generally don’t try to eat them so the pigeons just kind of get used to it.
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