Geese are the bravest animals in the animal kingdom

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19 May 2021, 4:55 pm

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Are geese animals? I thought they were birds?


Since when are birds not animals? :chin:


I thought animals had four legs?


you're confusing the word "animal" with the word "mammal".



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19 May 2021, 5:10 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
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Are geese animals? I thought they were birds?


Since when are birds not animals? :chin:


I thought animals had four legs?


you're confusing the word "animal" with the word "mammal".


Birds are tetrapods, they've got four legs. Two of those legs just have undergone some modification. Same with bats and pterosaurs.

Who's forelimbs give them a better superpower, ours or birds? :nerdy:


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19 May 2021, 5:16 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
Mountain Goat wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
Mountain Goat wrote:
Are geese animals? I thought they were birds?


Since when are birds not animals? :chin:


I thought animals had four legs?


you're confusing the word "animal" with the word "mammal".


Ah...Ok...


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19 May 2021, 5:16 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
Mountain Goat wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
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Are geese animals? I thought they were birds?


Since when are birds not animals? :chin:


I thought animals had four legs?


you're confusing the word "animal" with the word "mammal".


Birds are tetrapods, they've got four legs. Two of those legs just have undergone some modification. Same with bats and pterosaurs.

Who's forelimbs give them a better superpower, ours or birds? :nerdy:


I do not have fearthers..


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19 May 2021, 5:24 pm

Mountain Goat wrote:
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Mountain Goat wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
Mountain Goat wrote:
Are geese animals? I thought they were birds?


Since when are birds not animals? :chin:


I thought animals had four legs?


you're confusing the word "animal" with the word "mammal".


Birds are tetrapods, they've got four legs. Two of those legs just have undergone some modification. Same with bats and pterosaurs.

Who's forelimbs give them a better superpower, ours or birds? :nerdy:


I do not have fearthers..


I'd hope not, you're not a bird. :mrgreen:

Our hands don't let us fly, but I'd like to see a pigeon play Super Nintendo.
Our hands superpower is manual dexterity.


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20 May 2021, 4:35 pm

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Bees are braver.

A goose will attack plenty of things, but what won't a bee try to sting? And they die as a result.


Actually...I just heard that this bees-dying-from-stinging thing only happens when they sting humans. When they defend their hives from other mammals and birds they live and can sting again because the target of their stingers are animals with thick fur, or thick feathers. Its the bare skin of humans that acts like quicksand, and sucks the stingers out of their bodies and kills them! :lol: Apparently its a new discovery. 8O

I dunno. But thats what I heard recently.



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20 May 2021, 5:49 pm

IIRC the bee sting is barbed so the only way they can fly away is by tearing out part of their innards, leaving the sting behind (and still pulsing venom into the wound).

Ah yes, here ya go:
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21 May 2021, 6:50 am

naturalplastic wrote:
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Bees are braver.

A goose will attack plenty of things, but what won't a bee try to sting? And they die as a result.


Actually...I just heard that this bees-dying-from-stinging thing only happens when they sting humans. When they defend their hives from other mammals and birds they live and can sting again because the target of their stingers are animals with thick fur, or thick feathers. Its the bare skin of humans that acts like quicksand, and sucks the stingers out of their bodies and kills them! :lol: Apparently its a new discovery. 8O

I dunno. But thats what I heard recently.


I only recently learned that it's just honeybees who have the problem of ripping their stings off and dying. Bumblebees and solitary bees have unbarbed stings that can be used multiple times like a wasp's, as an individual bee is a bigger loss in those species. Which explains an incident when I was small, when a bumblebee stung me on the toe and flew away unharmed. For years, I thought it must have bitten me instead.


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21 May 2021, 7:02 am

^ Thanks, good to know.


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23 May 2021, 3:20 am

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Hmmmm...

I wonder if that's how the word "goose" got to be a verb, as well as a noun.

As in "to goose" someone.

White domestic farm geese go for the human genitals in a fight. Didnt know that before.


maybe they bite your ass when you run away.

The Vancouver geese dont give a crap, same stuff, slow crossings, sitting in the road, approaching the bike path while making eye contact like a boss.

And lots of them, crap everywhere!



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23 May 2021, 3:24 am

funeralxempire wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
Mountain Goat wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
Mountain Goat wrote:
Are geese animals? I thought they were birds?


Since when are birds not animals? :chin:


I thought animals had four legs?


you're confusing the word "animal" with the word "mammal".


Birds are tetrapods, they've got four legs. Two of those legs just have undergone some modification. Same with bats and pterosaurs.

Who's forelimbs give them a better superpower, ours or birds? :nerdy:


yeah, now that you put it that way Im going to ask the creator about this raw deal.



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23 May 2021, 3:35 am

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These savages fear nothing. And I mean nothing.

A group of geese were blocking the road. I tried honking. No effect. I moved my car closer as if about to run them over. Literally unfazed and didnt flinch. When I threw a rock at the geese's area without hitting the geese but aiming in their area to frighten them, still unfazed and unmoved. I got out, charged them with my broom in the back of my car, and not only did they not budge, they at one point came closer to me as if challenging me to a fight.

My God it is as if these animals are insensible to fear. I at one point tried to attack only for the geese to spread their wings, hiss, and intimidate me!!

Im from Minnesota and these animals are the scourge of our state. the worst thing about them is that they're unable to be intimidated and if need be they're not afraid to pick a fight. Size doesnt scare them.


It took you this long to realize that, I mean geese are notorious as*holes like seriously. But yeah for sure you just have to wait and let them cross the street because they literally don't care how much honking of the car horn you do, if anything seems if people start trying to honk at them they take even more time, like they will literally end up taking even more time to cross the street than they needed if you bother them and pretty sure its on purpose. I am specifically talking of the canadian geese, some of them don't migrate anymore because they like all the lawns and golf courses here in colorado so various colonies of them just stay here and don't migrate anymore.


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23 May 2021, 4:28 am

The_Znof wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
Hmmmm...

I wonder if that's how the word "goose" got to be a verb, as well as a noun.

As in "to goose" someone.

White domestic farm geese go for the human genitals in a fight. Didnt know that before.


maybe they bite your ass when you run away.

The Vancouver geese dont give a crap, same stuff, slow crossings, sitting in the road, approaching the bike path while making eye contact like a boss.

And lots of them, crap everywhere!


And honking your car horn at them doesnt phase them a bit.

Come to think of it...when you "honk" your car just sounds like one of them... so they prolly think that you're just saying "hello" to them in geese language. :lol:



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23 May 2021, 8:21 am

Some of our greylag geese that hang around near the town centre have figured out where the pedestrian crossings are on main roads. I doubt they understand the lights, but they do understand that the traffic often stops there long enough for them to cross.


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23 May 2021, 8:44 am

^ Heh, we don't stand a chance. :lol:
I for one welcome our honking overlords.


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29 May 2021, 10:48 am

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Ps Never fight a goose, they are level with your groin and not stupid

I've heard that about swans as well. They don't waste much time.


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