A pigeon suspected of spying for China was released from captivity after Indian officials had detained it.
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    A pigeon suspected of spying for China was released from captivity this week after Indian officials had detained it, according to PETA India.

    The pigeon was sent to Bai Sakarbai Dinshaw Petit Hospital for Animals to be examined medically and investigated.

    In 2011, an Indian court ruled birds have a fundamental right to live free in the open sky, according to PETA.

    A pigeon was detained on suspicion of spying in 2015 when a 14-year-old boy in Manwal, India, near the border with Pakistan, noticed there was a stamped message on its feathers written in Urdu, a language spoken in Pakistan, according to Indian news agency UPI.

    During World War I, more than 100,000 pigeons flew missions as part of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in France.

    One famous pigeon, Cher Ami, was used to delivered 12 messages in Verdun, France during the war, but he was shot and killed in 1918, according to the Smithsonian Magazine.

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