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Watch what happens when this gosling recognizes its human friend
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Well that’s nice. Usually a goose running toward you is terrifying and they bite hard. Geese are assholes.
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I also love how Momma goose notices and dashes off to protect the over-eager offspring. That kid is a handful.
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That video is certainly worth taking a gander at…
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I was going to say in a year we will have a post on the Follow-up thread “Goose friend killed in savage beaking incident”.
Beaking? Is that the right word? It’s not really a bite, but geese also don’t peck…
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Konrad Lorenz won a Nobel prize for noticing this behavior!
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I’ve definitely been bitten. It was a Toulouse, though so maybe it’s just arrogant French geese.
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Today I learned about tomia, which are horrible looking
(When originally found the picture was captioned “5 weeks old and already a jerk”)
Looks like all AGAB (all geese are bad)
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That’s what makes them really good guard animals - you can’t fool them or use doped food, and they’ll kick up an almighty racket if they sense an intruder.
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ABAD
All Birds Are Dinosaurs
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