Somehow, the term “rats with subway tokens” just doesn’t seem to sound right … 
djm
Now here is an example of how a species that evolved in a different ecosystem has adapted admirably to the human-built environment which has replaced its natural one.
Best wishes,
Jerry
The pigeons in the University District in Seattle have learned to use the crosswalks on University Ave. (And the cars actually stop for them.)
That is a wonderful photo!
Pigeons, like rats, are extremely intelligent and amazing social animals which have learned to live in just about every enviroment imaginable. Same for humans.
Maybe I’m imagining it, but I thought that got posted here before.
If you’re interested in sharing a tube with a pigeon, they seem to get on at Paddington on the District and Circle line heading Westward, and get off at Bayswater or even Notting Hill Gate. I’ve been on a tube where a pigeon did just that. Pigeons are quieter, cleaner and take up less space than many other London Underground passengers. It didn’t put its feet on the seats, either.
Damn, I thought it was gonna be like Studebaker Hawk. He got parachute pants and filled them with honey and beckoned flies into his pants. He had some sort of mind control and would command them to fly, thereby flying him wherever he needed to go. It worked great till he had them fly him to Billy the Mountain, who made quick work of him.
(It’s all from a Frank Zappa album, Just another band from LA, a work of absolute genius.)
How do you know this?
My wife works at the UW, and has watched it happen on more than one occasion when she’s been walking down the Ave at lunchtime. (It’s always just a single pigeon, though, so maybe it’s only one pigeon that has learned to use the crosswalk.)
That makes one pigeon smarter than a lot of pedestrians I have seen.
djm
Animals are getting very, very smart. One here, another there . . . next thing you know, they’re using keyboards and impersonating people . . .
The next step for animals behaving like people will entail taxation.
-Birds, bats, insects and a few other animals will come to loathe the Avian Revenue Service and find no mystery in its acronym, ARS. 
Another member of club- cool=Frank woudl be proud-mine is on vinyl
OH, ETHYL. THERE’S A HOWARD JOHNSON’S. WANNA EAT SOME CLAMS?
djm
Ssshuckssss. I’ve been disssscovered.
I miss glauber terribly!
Umm, I don’t think we’d suspected you . . . 
Gets out Irish translation book . . .
Some years ago I bought a book called 256. This is apparently the number seats on Northern Line train.
Each page was a description of one passenger, their looks, clothing, thoughts, etc.
One of the passengers was a pigeon (though it wasn’t occupying a seat).