Near the end of his life, Nikola Tesla became obsessed with pigeons. His whole life he claimed that he must obtain from women because no married man ever succeeded in science, but in his last days he fell in love with a pigeon. As he was searching for his inspiration, looking through the open window of his New York hotel room, pigeons often visited him. Once he saw a bright powerful lightning in the pigeon’s eyes, he grabbed it and the pigeon died in his arms. The inventor claimed that at that moment, he knew that he had finished his life’s work. “Yes, it was a real light, a powerful, dazzling, blinding light, a light more intense than I had ever produced by the most powerful lamps in my laboratory.”, Tesla said. He was convinced that the bird came to tell him that he was dying.