🎙️ The Animals — Episode 23

Pigeons vs Doctors: Who's Better at Finding Breast Cancer?

🐦 What if the answer to one of medicine's hardest problems was sitting on your window ledge eating a chip?

We need to talk about pigeons.

Not in a cute way. Not in a "oh look at that little bird" way. In a completely serious, jaw-on-the-floor, how-did-nobody-tell-me-this kind of way.

Because it turns out — the bird that you shoo off park benches, the one pecking at yesterday's pizza crust on the sidewalk, the creature people literally call a rat with wings — can look at a cancer scan and spot ...