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Old 08-31-2012, 09:16 PM
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1914 ~ The last Passenger Pigeon died in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.

I heard a rather loud mother telling her brood of brats at the museum in Cleveland that Passenger Pigeons were used for carrying messages in the First World War and had all died out because with radio they were no longer needed.
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