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Losing its fear of humans has enabled one animal
to spread into cities everywhere and in huge numbers.
Pigeons are by far the most successful urban bird.
Here in Albi in the south of France,
the pigeons come to the river to bathe.
They need to preen their flight feathers,
clean off the city dust and cool themselves down.
A predator that has
taken advantage
of the very thing
that has led to the
pigeon's success.
Their lack of fear. As the pigeons bathe,
oil from their plumage flows downstream and is detected.
Monstrous Wels catfish.
Introduced here just 40 years ago,
they have proliferated,
virtually exterminated the local fish stocks,
and they've now developed a taste for pigeon.
Their eyesight is poor,
so they use their barbels to sense the movements of their victims.
A radical new hunting strategy for what
is normally a bottom-dwelling fish.
After a thousand
years of living
in this city,
pigeons are now having to learn to avoid fish.
