Flying Backward Homing Pigeons (from "Bobby Goosey's Compendium of Perfectly Sensible Nonsense)"

 

                                                       Backward-Flying Homing Pigeons

Then there was the man named Lyman Slack, of Tempe, Arizona, who spent his whole life training homing pigeons to fly backwards, i.e., to fly not from some indefinite place back home, but from home to some indefinite place, and while flying to fly tail first, rather than head first, and flapping their wings not up and down, but down and up. And after fifty years of intense effort, Lyman had his pigeons almost trained to do exactly that, when, out of the blue came the Great Plague of 2020, which put a damper on his research and dried up all his funding.

 In the upshot: Lyman’s pigeons are still flapping their wings up and down.

[excerpted from the book by U.R. Bowie: Here We Be. Where Be We?]