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Paul Julius Reuters used 45 pigeons to take mail in and out of Parus during Prussian siege of 1870 who deployed specially-trained falcons to intercept them. After a hundred days, long after Castor and Pollux the elephants were butchered, " a fine meat" said Victor Hugo who also consumed ostrich, water buffalo, zebra from the same zoo, and long after all the horses were killed, and cats, and rats- no-one killed any pigeons which remained plentiful.