<h3>Why such an anomaly?</h3>
<figure id="attachment_347884" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-347884" style="width: 2500px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="69bd793f"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/12/6fb4ed30e37b2e4bf3ec5f951ffe0251.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-347884" class="wp-caption-text"> A pigeon without both legs (left) at Oasis 21, a multi-story park. Unable to walk, it had to flap its wings to move, even over short distances. &#8230;&#8230;</figcaption></figure>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> This is terrible. I&#8217;ve seen them lose a toe every once in a while. &#8230;&#8230;&#8221;</span></p>
<p> The owner of a nearby pet store, Asai Bird and Animal Shop, was speechless. When he visited a park in the center of Nagoya City after hearing about the large number of &#8220;toeless pigeons,&#8221; he found that a whopping one-third of the 15 pigeons there had abnormalities in their feet, including pigeons with missing toes and the tips of their cocoons (see photo below).</p>
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<p> A woman who was nearby feeding them bean snacks said,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> A woman who was feeding the pigeons nearby said, &#8220;I have been coming here to feed them from time to time since I found a pigeon with no legs earlier this year. Since they have no fingers, they can&#8217;t perch on telegraph poles or round posts, so I take pity on them when they perch on the rectangular steel frame of the facilities in the park. &#8230;&#8230;</span></p>
<p> He sighed. What is the cause?</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> It is possible that rice grains are the cause. Some people in the area are spreading rice grains as bait. Since rice grains are sticky, stringed vinyl and human hair adhere to them.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> When these become entangled in the ankles and toes, they eventually become necrotic and shredded because the pigeons cannot untangle themselves. When they lose their legs, they cannot perch on branches and have no choice but to roost in bushes and other places. The risk of being attacked by stray cats also increases,&#8221; says Kazuhiko Ogawa of the Nagoya City Bird Observation Center.</span></p>
<p> Is it possible that excessive affection is having an adverse effect on them?</p>
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<figure id="attachment_347885" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-347885" style="width: 2500px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="2054523a"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/12/4a0798f615d0475b45a2a7391f7af170.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-347885" class="wp-caption-text">A pigeon with only one finger left and a pigeon with a swollen kakato. Near the sea, a pigeon with a finger cut off due to tangled hair was also seen</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_347886" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-347886" style="width: 2500px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="8ad3f05c"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/12/929c6364a75a474e46a093f78d81bf28.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-347886" class="wp-caption-text"> The right foot was missing the tip of the cupped foot, and the left foot had the toes and other parts of the cupped foot shredded into pieces, with hair entangled in them.</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_347887" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-347887" style="width: 2500px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="4a8dd207"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/12/6e60f1790295f81680fba1b26b8497a6.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-347887" class="wp-caption-text"> Never before published in this magazine The astonishing reason for the large number of &#8220;legless pigeons&#8221; 《from Nagoya》.</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_347888" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-347888" style="width: 2500px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="e3981cac"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/12/7e2662f60ad81208c96f30f16a4ab80e.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-347888" class="wp-caption-text"> Unpublished photograph: The astonishing reason for the large number of &#8220;legless pigeons&#8221; (from Nagoya)</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_347889" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-347889" style="width: 2500px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="f483a1e7"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/12/873f75c790d6f7930e540e09c1679657.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-347889" class="wp-caption-text"> Unpublished Cuttings from the magazine The Astonishing Reason for the Outbreak of &#8220;Legless Pigeons&#8221; 《From Nagoya》 《Nagoya</figcaption></figure>
<p> From the December 22, 2023 issue of FRIDAY</p>


 Tomoyuki Hanai

 Pigeons with no legs" are appearing in large numbers in Nagoya. When we visited a park in central Nagoya, we found that one-third of the 15 pigeons there had abnormalities in their feet, including pigeons with missing toes and the tips of their cocoons. When we looked for the cause, we found a startling reason...

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