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Pigeon racing in the Philippines: What birds and their owners go through in unforgiving race

Pigeons in action during a race [Courtesy]

It is a brutal 600-kilometre gauntlet during which competitors face searing heat, wild seas, vicious predators, and the threat of kidnapping.

Only one in ten will finish.

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