Did you know that Pigeons are great Pathologists?

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Researchers recently find out that Pigeons can differentiate among a healthy texture and a tumor. They specially can tell diagnosing related to breast cancer.

Researchers believe that Pigeons can be as proper successor for human research on some cases related to the medical image studies. 

Pigeon’s can distinguish the two different slides of breast cancer (the benign and malignant slides). The bird accuracy increased from first day to 85 percent. 

The bird has tested by researchers to find out their intelligence in medical era. In one of the research, they successfully passed and their accuracy to tell the difference between a healthy texture and a tumor, reached to 99%.

It has been proven that Pigeons have a powerful memory that can be used in some medical image researches in future.

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