You must log in or # to comment.
Goose was not valued
I wonder why the softbank goose hadn’t broken out of mastodon yet. It’s been over 3 days.
It’s made some waves on BlueSky. At least, among people in the orbit of Ed Zitron.
Eggs do not lay eggs
I’ll fill that in: Geese wouldn’t have to be around humans so much if humans didn’t turn untold millions of square miles of natural habitat into a sea of asphalt and concrete for their stupid vroom vroom boxes.
I took it as “geese are perfect and need to additional explanation”.
Geese make excellent watch animals and can fight off predators as large as coyotes, plus they are hardier and more self-sufficient than most other livestock birds, and finally much of their diet is grass (meaning they require substantially less supplementary feed).
This is goose slander. Also it’s spelled “squirrel.”
it’s spelled “squirrel”
Maybe it’s spelled in a British accent? 😁
One of my favorite things when listening to audiobooks is when the narrator has impeccable dignified RP diction and then suddenly the word “squirrel” arrives to cause hilarious auditory chaos 😄
Even better when the narrator has a Scottish accent!
Squir-elles are just French female squirrels.
You can tell by the long eyelashes and how they’re always smoking using a long cigarette holder.
A sign I found IRL. Last time I checked, geese can’t read, so I’m not sure what the point of it is.
Maybe to discourage people from introducing invasive species in that particular area?
Or it’s a sign for that ONE guy in the neighborhood who insists on taking his obnoxious goose with him everywhere?
Or maybe it’s a Scarfolk type thing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFCrJleggrI
Deer can’t read either.
Geese are VERY ASSERTIVE.
Geese are TIRED OF YOUR SHIT
I am with the geese.
Owls are not wise. They’re idiots, almost the entire skull cavity is just made of eyeballs, that’s very little left over for the brain.
IIRC from an ornithologist talk, owls have such good evolutionary advantages (eyesight, hearing, silent flight), they don’t have to be “intelligent”. The rest of the raptors are generally considered more “intelligent” for seeking, stalking, and catching prey.
and the earholes
but bird brains are small and dense so they’re still smart anyway
Corvids are but it’s not a bird universal. Ravens, crows, magpies are smart, but owls belong to an evolutionary family that considers brains to be a good counterweight.
not as smart as the smartest birds doesn’t mean they aren’t still smart. also, parrots have similar intelligence to corvids, and even pigeons are good at recognizing patterns
Geese are BLOODTHIRSTY
Geese are not valued!
Geese are very attentive and cooperative parents! 🪿
Ok, I’m a bit tired and I thought that the last word in your sentence was “partners” for a good 10 seconds, and I thought, “hmmmm, what now?”
It took a second read through for me to fully understand what you were saying.Sleepy time for me now.
I drove by a goose sitting with about 15 sleeping goslings yesterday.
I can barely get three kids to go to bed at the same time. That goose is a better mom than I am.
Pretty sure it’s that those goslings are better children than yours are.
Threats of taking a walk over a sewer grate make for very well-behaved children.
Never had a problem with a goose. Deer on the other hand are vile vermin who suck the life out of gardens and countryside.
I have a buddy who’s a forest ecologist, he loves nature and all of its creatures… except for deer. If you get the right amount of booze in him he will go on like an hour long rant about how it should be everyone’s civic duty to shoot deer in the face on site.
Apparently native Americans spent centuries reshaping all the forest in America to become giant deer factories to sustain the large population of pre colonial America. These deer factories are still making deer printers go brrr noises even after the great dying of the native population. And the European settlers who replaced them spent their extinction level effort on hunting everything else.
So now the deer population is so overpopulated that the greatest threat to their population is disease and starvation. All while they strip the forest floor of any plants at deer height. They’ve basically sterilized American Forrest of the shrub, saplings, and undergrowth that a Forrest needs to sustain native habitats and a healthy ecology.
We have also eradicated the wolf in many areas where they would keep the deer in check. My dog tries his best though, its on sight with deer. Hes actually gotten two of them.
Yeah, trying to explain to people who think hunting deer is unethical or bad for nature is always difficult. There is no such thing as unaltered nature in North America, the native populations were extremely good at creating forest that could pump out enough deer to feed millions of people and hundreds of thousands wolves at the same time.
Doing nothing is just wrecking the ecology that was shaped over hundreds if nothing thousands of years and creating systemic collapses that destroy what diversity we have left.
My little weenie dogs even know the word deer and act like rabid psychos the moment it’s uttered ready to tear out of the house and chase them off
They’re very CUTE vile vermin, though… 🤷🏻
Gesse can SHIT
So? I can do that too! I do it every day, in fact! 😎
Damn, mister fancy ass over here can shit everyday. Must be nice.
One should be proud of one’s functional bowels
HONK HONK!!!
Deer are not as gentle as most people think
Yeah, they’re actually very selfish lovers.
But tail fluffy 😢
Geese are good at guarding a property.
Someone sneaking in would at the very least ruffle some feathers.
Problem with geese is that often the property that they are guarding is a public footpaths.
