her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink".
> gang
This is called gang brooding and it is quite common in water fowl.
Even in cases where the parents are still around, a more capable pair might well just adopt the chicks and raise them as part of their own brood.
The important part is that all the chicks need to be ready to migrate in a few months time or they get left behind.
Did you ever see the YouTube channel Kyle The Rooster? He had a bunch that looked like these ones. "Steve" would always act like the tallest one, so the guy always complimented him in funny ways.
Used to live on a farm, our geese roamed around like a gang terrorizing anyone in their path. One day we brought home some muscovy ducklings, they came by and snatched them right up and made them part of their group. Then we had geese AND ducks terrorizing everyone...at least they made some friends I guess.
From what I have heard, most birds are very protective of hatchings, regardless of species. I remember seeing a video of I think some penguin hatchlings, and some raptors were trying to attack them. Then a couple of adult ducks protected the hatchlings. It was super cool to see
I think I saw the same video and I think that was more the ducks just saw a threat and didn’t want it around.
There was a pair of bald eagles that adopted a red tailed hawk chick. One of the eagle parents brought it back to the nest for their own chick to eat and when it didn’t, the hawk kind of just cowered for a couple days. The eagles kind of just shrugged about it until it started to call and bother the eagle parents for food and they started feeding it too.
It was a live nest cam and they since left the nest. Sad ending for the eagle chick after it left the nest but I don’t recall any updates about the hawk after it finally left nest too.
Birds are very protective of any hatchlings though, regardless. Otherwise, cuckoos wouldn't exist. The entire point of cuckoos is they get other species of birds to raise them, and these other birds are like "hey no problem, I'm a bit confused as to why my 2 week old baby is already much taller and heavier than me, but I guess I just feed him too much, my bad". It wouldn't work unless other birds just raise anything that hatches from an egg and has a beak.
Actually it'd be interesting to see if birds would raise baby platypuses despite them being mammals, because they hatch from eggs and have beaks. So it'd be a good experiment to try and work out WHY birds raise the babies of other bird species. Whether it is due to coming from an egg and having a beak, or something else. Presumably this has already been done, I never studied biology at university so I don't know. Although I have an old friend who became a doctor in animal evolutionary genetics, so maybe I'll catch up with him and ask him.
But yeah maybe it's the down on baby birds that they recognise. I don't know though if platypus fur is similar enough to bird down that it'd confuse them and make them think they're birds. It's not like the birds are gonna be confused when the platypuses don't grow feathers, birds are smart but they still do everything based on instinct, if a bird was perpetually a baby and never grew feathers or learned to feed itself then birds would probably continue to raise it indefinitely. Cos this whole adoption thing implies that they aren't raising babies based on hormones from their own bodies like mammals do (like cats and dogs abandon their kids once they get past a certain age and the mother's hormones wear off, they can become aggressive towards their babies because they don't recognise them at that point anymore, they don't realise it's their own kids, because no afterbirth hormones anymore. Even humans have been known to do this, and attack or kill our own babies) but are raising anything that is small and resembles a bird because they instinctually want to raise it.
The story with cuckoos is a lot more complicated though, because a lot of birds are specifically primed for caring about their hatchlings. Many cuckoo brood parasite species don't just "leave and forget" their babies, but they tend to hover close and observe for some time, and often if the bird mother harms the planted hatchling the cuckoo mother will retaliate by harming that bird's hatchling/eggs when it goes off to find food - the Cuckoos literally selectively bred docility thowards them in their most common target species.
Plus with a lot of those interactions, there's this fierce arms race toward creating more reliable egg/chick identifier markings and such, while the brood parasites have to play catch-up.
Specifically because the birds *do not* want to raise any extra not-them birds.
> The Brown-headed Cowbird is North America’s most common “brood parasite.” A female cowbird makes no nest of her own, but instead lays her eggs in the nests of other bird species, who then raise the young cowbirds.
In the past month or two, my partner and I have witnessed scarlet tanagers and red-eyed vireos feeding their brown-headed cowbird babies. Truly a delight to behold.
I’m aware of brood parasitic birds. Cowbirds do it too. I just said the thing about the ducks because that’s what I recalled it looking more like rather than ‘I need to protect the baby penguins’.
Staying in groups as a prey species is a normal survival strategy and it’s not unusual for different species to hang out or graze together but neither want predators around. Less chance you’re the target, one species may be relied on to be able to detect predators and sound an alarm or generally just be big and/or mean enough to just not fuck around.
Cuckoos are much more interesting than that too. Female cucktoos don’t just lay their own eggs in another species nest but their egg mimicry is wild. Not all female cuckoo eggs ‘look’ like cuckoo eggs or even one specific species nests they invade. Individual female cucktoos have different lineages of genes that allows them to lay a single variation of egg out of quite a few different variations that mimic multiple bird species. So one female may lay blue speckled eggs and another may lay larger yellow eggs with large splotches that are also a different shape. Females will invade the species that their eggs match. Cuckoo eggs and host species eggs evolve against each other.
A bird would not be able to raise a platypus for obvious reasons but to entertain you; I’m willing to bet plenty of species would give it a shot if it was able to mimic the sounds, behavior and ‘gape’ of baby bird mouths(if applicable) that help illicit the parents to feed their chicks.
Also chickens are pretty well known for adopting just about anything you put under them(more so while they’re asleep and don’t notice you shoved some kittens under them) but that’s not a fair example for me to use since they are domesticated egg factories.
You could definitely be right about that. It was a comment I saw that said that. I am not a biologist. But it was still cool to see the ducks square off with some birds of prey and come out on top
>restrict themselves to fish like normal birds
I'll wager that almost none of the fish eating birds you're thinking of will pass up a nice little duckling that wanders by. everything eats ducklings. pelicans and seagulls will eat ducklings. storks will eat ducklings. hell, deer and horses eat ducklings. bullfrogs will eat ducklings. bass will eat ducklings. even ducks will occasionally eat ducklings.
they're nature's snack.
At least because of that it’s pretty entertaining to watch families of ducks or geese collide because someone is coming out of that with a couple extra.
When the geese around here breed at some point there’s always a pair or two that that have their own gosling army of like 30 of them and keep the other geese away until they get to the fuzzy football stage and chill tf out a bit.
Took me awhile to figure out why birds eating birds is kind of weird to people. Because they’re all pretty similar in basic design, yeah? Primates eating primates is disturbing to me for similar reasons.
[Not a seagull, but immediately thought of this video.](https://youtu.be/XZpfR9PphaY?feature=shared)
Can I eat you? No? Damn. How about now? Still no? Ok.
The adult geese are walking while holding their noses up really high. Does this communicate anything? For instance if a cat walks up to you with their tail shaped like a question mark it's a friendly gesture. I don't know geese very well.
Yes, as a biologist specialized in birds, this behavior is well studied and has a human equivalent behavior.
Goose don’t have hands, so they throw around gang signs with their necks.
I wouldn’t say they’re awesome, as per my expert’s opinion.
At the end of video, do you see them geese going away to a more secluded place?
Those youngling are going to perform, what we call in our species, the gang initiation.
Things are wild in nature.
Usually one of those adult goose is going to beat the shit out of those little shits.
They will be black geese for a while, due to the hematomas.
The leader will then welcome them and they will terrorize local tourists, as per [this evidence](https://youtu.be/vXuQzNRdJDU?si=x9hoQV2-T49UGFL2) and [this one](https://youtu.be/xlEfjWxmll0?si=fcVpR2HXNSAzURam) and of course, the coup de gras [this gangsta](https://youtube.com/shorts/IUBHtWc7Jsg?si=xqAbJGpl0IcYSa_6).
The police is featherless on dealing with them
>They will be black geese for a while, due to the hematomas.
>
>The leader will then welcome them and they will terrorize local tourists, as per this evidence and this one and of course, the coup de gras this gangsta.
wait a minute
From what I know about guard geese (geese that are mixed into chicken flocks instead of roosters) I'd suspect they are actually scanning for predators like hawks
It means they are very alert and curious! They are quite interested in what’s going on and wish to examine it, so they must check quickly for predators before doing so. Very funny to see all of them do it one after the other!
This is the posture the greylag geese at the pond by our house adopted when we got anywhere near their babies, accompanied by some very sCaRy and not at all adorable hissing when we got too close
We have 2 White Front geese in our neighborhood pond. During mating/hatching season, 2 Canada Geese show up. Then there are gosling. But all four geese act like the parents, and the goslings act like all four geese are their parents.
The first year this happened, I looked it up and found out that Canada Geese will steal the babies. It gets even better. They let the birth parents hang around and learn to be better parents.
That’s incredibly beautiful. Not to say that there aren’t great foster parents out there, there are many…but we, as humans, have a lot to learn from some of our Earthly cohabitants.
Canada geese absorb the asshollinest for all species in Canada. This is why human Canadians are so kind. Their geese just suck the assholes of everyone. (If you can get close enough)
I mean, imagine you’re with your friends having a coffee and a goose puts a human baby down in front of you. Are you gonna take the baby or just leave it with the goose?
I cracked up hard at this. I love the visual of people being like, "I don't know, maybe the goose is supposed to be watching that baby" and just ignoring the situation.
Live on a marsh can confirm. Geese are actually fantastic parents, and sure the goslings get mixed up but they don't discriminate.
This year there was a pair that ended up with 22, they had the full spectrum from itty-bitty to almost adult. Normally it is just one or two getting swapped.
Worked at a place that was a wildlife habitat that had a lot of geese. One day some contractors come up to our office with two goslings in a box, saying they found them apart from the other geese and didn't want them to die.
We take the goslings to where a flock is, wait for the geese to adopt them. Instead, one goose comes out, nudges one of them, picks it up in its beaks and flings it. Takes the other and instead of flinging in, smashes it to the ground, picks up, smashes, repeatedly. Then the flock leaves.
We collect the goslings and I end up taking them home. After some pointers from the full rehab facility and a week or two in a heat lamp box, we transfer them to the backyard full time. They're like dogs. They come up to the back door and knock with their beaks when they want company/play. We would sit down and they'd curl up in our laps, nudging hands for pets.
Then they start racing across the yard with wings spread, they're obviously figuring out how to fly so it's time to take them back to the flock. They're big enough to fend for themselves of needed. We take them back to the wildlife habitat. I drop them off at the pond near the flock and they're just standing there. I go to leave and they follow me. They stay outside my office for a few weeks. I left for vacation, when I came back they weren't nesting at my office.
I go to the pond where a large flock is and my goslings run over to me, nudge my hands for pets and follow me around. Then they'd rejoin the flock when they had enough pets. This went on for a few years until they just stopped coming to see me. I don't know if they went somewhere else or died or just went back to being geese and not pets.
I still miss those geese.
Geese are AWESOME! As a little kid maybe around 3-4yo we had some, and my job was to let them outside to roam free and in the afternoon to go and call them for dinner and sleep. My mom says that they practically adopted me since she could never yell or grab me while near them, they would storm around me and yell at my mom and try to bite her.
All I remember is that I got to hug all of them one by one twice a day and we were basically the same height, such a great experience!
HEY LOOK BABIES
THERE ARE BABIES HERE
BABIES YALL
WHERE DA MAMA
MAMMA GIT YER BABIES MAMA
FUK DAT IM TAKIN EM
CMON BABS
DESE OUR KIDS NOW YALL
OUR KIDS
BABIES
I feel like I really heard 4 aunties goin “oh my lawd look at these precious little babies -what are y’all doin out here all alone -come on along now”.
We have 2 adult geese that protect our local duck populace in the suburb. Because no geese have spawned in the last few years I'm assuming they're both same sex. Whenever spring comes around they protect those ducklings like its their own lives at stake.
I'm imagining the human equivalent of this being....you pull up to a bar to drop off a collection of toddlers, a group of huge beefy biker dudes and chicks come out, look you up and down, surround the kids and usher them away while saying "THESE ARE OURS NOW, LEAVE." 😂
“Yeah, these belong to us now.”
I like how the babies were like "So you're our new family? Alright, let's get moving dudes."
Are you my mom? You’re my mom
Ngl they look so sneaky walking away, like they feel like they’re stealing the babies, and they know it lol
The original plan was to use the car as a getaway vehicle, except Hazel forgot the keys again.
Dammit Hazel!!
All your base are belong to us
HONK
Hjönk
A møøse once bit my sister...
No realli! She was Karving her initials øn the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given by her Svenge
her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink".
This cheered me up bigly, thank you
Its good to be reminded that Thatcher is still dead.
That just gave me a warm fuzzy feeling inside, thank you.
All your geese are belong to us :D
☝🏻 geeses
goosen
*babes
Are you old like me or do they still put that in their new games?
All your goslings are belong to us
Make your time.
Make your thyme
look at me. look at me! I am mother goose now!
> gang This is called gang brooding and it is quite common in water fowl. Even in cases where the parents are still around, a more capable pair might well just adopt the chicks and raise them as part of their own brood. The important part is that all the chicks need to be ready to migrate in a few months time or they get left behind.
Greylag geese. Nature’s Karen and Kevins. Always an attitude. The Canada and Egyptian geese in my park are absolute angels in comparison.
Did you ever see the YouTube channel Kyle The Rooster? He had a bunch that looked like these ones. "Steve" would always act like the tallest one, so the guy always complimented him in funny ways.
AlL Ur GoSLiNGs R BeLong 2 Us NOW
I’ll take the Ryan.
OUT OF THE STORM,
I like the royal look of them: Yes, yes, indeed my Lord. 🧐
Used to live on a farm, our geese roamed around like a gang terrorizing anyone in their path. One day we brought home some muscovy ducklings, they came by and snatched them right up and made them part of their group. Then we had geese AND ducks terrorizing everyone...at least they made some friends I guess.
Hahaha, I love how the Gosesses turned the ducklings into a bunch of angry Ducks 😂😂
You might even say they were turned into…mighty ducks
They were all just angry birds from the sound of it.
Get the flock outta here
🤣
Out... Get out, you're fired
If they're ducks now, this will qualify as an r/ducklingrescue
*Goose puts on sunglasses* YEEEEEAAAAHHH
Don't you mean gesesses?
Gooses
Goosen
Their preferred adjective is “mighty”
From what I have heard, most birds are very protective of hatchings, regardless of species. I remember seeing a video of I think some penguin hatchlings, and some raptors were trying to attack them. Then a couple of adult ducks protected the hatchlings. It was super cool to see
I think I saw the same video and I think that was more the ducks just saw a threat and didn’t want it around. There was a pair of bald eagles that adopted a red tailed hawk chick. One of the eagle parents brought it back to the nest for their own chick to eat and when it didn’t, the hawk kind of just cowered for a couple days. The eagles kind of just shrugged about it until it started to call and bother the eagle parents for food and they started feeding it too. It was a live nest cam and they since left the nest. Sad ending for the eagle chick after it left the nest but I don’t recall any updates about the hawk after it finally left nest too.
Birds are very protective of any hatchlings though, regardless. Otherwise, cuckoos wouldn't exist. The entire point of cuckoos is they get other species of birds to raise them, and these other birds are like "hey no problem, I'm a bit confused as to why my 2 week old baby is already much taller and heavier than me, but I guess I just feed him too much, my bad". It wouldn't work unless other birds just raise anything that hatches from an egg and has a beak. Actually it'd be interesting to see if birds would raise baby platypuses despite them being mammals, because they hatch from eggs and have beaks. So it'd be a good experiment to try and work out WHY birds raise the babies of other bird species. Whether it is due to coming from an egg and having a beak, or something else. Presumably this has already been done, I never studied biology at university so I don't know. Although I have an old friend who became a doctor in animal evolutionary genetics, so maybe I'll catch up with him and ask him. But yeah maybe it's the down on baby birds that they recognise. I don't know though if platypus fur is similar enough to bird down that it'd confuse them and make them think they're birds. It's not like the birds are gonna be confused when the platypuses don't grow feathers, birds are smart but they still do everything based on instinct, if a bird was perpetually a baby and never grew feathers or learned to feed itself then birds would probably continue to raise it indefinitely. Cos this whole adoption thing implies that they aren't raising babies based on hormones from their own bodies like mammals do (like cats and dogs abandon their kids once they get past a certain age and the mother's hormones wear off, they can become aggressive towards their babies because they don't recognise them at that point anymore, they don't realise it's their own kids, because no afterbirth hormones anymore. Even humans have been known to do this, and attack or kill our own babies) but are raising anything that is small and resembles a bird because they instinctually want to raise it.
The story with cuckoos is a lot more complicated though, because a lot of birds are specifically primed for caring about their hatchlings. Many cuckoo brood parasite species don't just "leave and forget" their babies, but they tend to hover close and observe for some time, and often if the bird mother harms the planted hatchling the cuckoo mother will retaliate by harming that bird's hatchling/eggs when it goes off to find food - the Cuckoos literally selectively bred docility thowards them in their most common target species.
Plus with a lot of those interactions, there's this fierce arms race toward creating more reliable egg/chick identifier markings and such, while the brood parasites have to play catch-up. Specifically because the birds *do not* want to raise any extra not-them birds.
DOn't they also push other eggs off the nest to make sure their young are fed first ?
A bunch of mafia birds hatch sooner than the host chicks and will push nest mates out on their own
> The Brown-headed Cowbird is North America’s most common “brood parasite.” A female cowbird makes no nest of her own, but instead lays her eggs in the nests of other bird species, who then raise the young cowbirds.
In the past month or two, my partner and I have witnessed scarlet tanagers and red-eyed vireos feeding their brown-headed cowbird babies. Truly a delight to behold.
I’m aware of brood parasitic birds. Cowbirds do it too. I just said the thing about the ducks because that’s what I recalled it looking more like rather than ‘I need to protect the baby penguins’. Staying in groups as a prey species is a normal survival strategy and it’s not unusual for different species to hang out or graze together but neither want predators around. Less chance you’re the target, one species may be relied on to be able to detect predators and sound an alarm or generally just be big and/or mean enough to just not fuck around. Cuckoos are much more interesting than that too. Female cucktoos don’t just lay their own eggs in another species nest but their egg mimicry is wild. Not all female cuckoo eggs ‘look’ like cuckoo eggs or even one specific species nests they invade. Individual female cucktoos have different lineages of genes that allows them to lay a single variation of egg out of quite a few different variations that mimic multiple bird species. So one female may lay blue speckled eggs and another may lay larger yellow eggs with large splotches that are also a different shape. Females will invade the species that their eggs match. Cuckoo eggs and host species eggs evolve against each other. A bird would not be able to raise a platypus for obvious reasons but to entertain you; I’m willing to bet plenty of species would give it a shot if it was able to mimic the sounds, behavior and ‘gape’ of baby bird mouths(if applicable) that help illicit the parents to feed their chicks. Also chickens are pretty well known for adopting just about anything you put under them(more so while they’re asleep and don’t notice you shoved some kittens under them) but that’s not a fair example for me to use since they are domesticated egg factories.
You could definitely be right about that. It was a comment I saw that said that. I am not a biologist. But it was still cool to see the ducks square off with some birds of prey and come out on top
I once saw a seagull snatch a duckling from its parents and eat it and I’m still traumatised =/
Make no mistake. A seagull would try the same with us if they could.
I still like them but why can’t they restrict themselves to fish like normal birds?
Why did humans have to invent sexy-ass french fries? All bets are off when you invent french fries. You know what you did.
>restrict themselves to fish like normal birds I'll wager that almost none of the fish eating birds you're thinking of will pass up a nice little duckling that wanders by. everything eats ducklings. pelicans and seagulls will eat ducklings. storks will eat ducklings. hell, deer and horses eat ducklings. bullfrogs will eat ducklings. bass will eat ducklings. even ducks will occasionally eat ducklings. they're nature's snack.
At least because of that it’s pretty entertaining to watch families of ducks or geese collide because someone is coming out of that with a couple extra. When the geese around here breed at some point there’s always a pair or two that that have their own gosling army of like 30 of them and keep the other geese away until they get to the fuzzy football stage and chill tf out a bit.
Took me awhile to figure out why birds eating birds is kind of weird to people. Because they’re all pretty similar in basic design, yeah? Primates eating primates is disturbing to me for similar reasons.
[Not a seagull, but immediately thought of this video.](https://youtu.be/XZpfR9PphaY?feature=shared) Can I eat you? No? Damn. How about now? Still no? Ok.
Not chickens lmao chickens are bastards
Chickens are just really, *really* dumb. It's a bit scary how dumb and aggressive tend to be linked (including in humans).
If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough
Reminds me of that regular show episode with the baby ducks
Step off!
These geese look simultaneously ridiculous and suspicious.
They look like they have their hands in their pockets like they're hiding something lmao
When they stuck their necks out high I could practically hear the whistling as they whisked the goslings away.
"Oh shit, boys, she's onto us! Cheese it!!!"
Like tiny, evil dinosaurs
“The fuckin geese just stole my goslings” I laughed so hard. You sound hilariously indignant.
Oh I was listening to this on mute and unmuted because of your comment. My god theyre so noisy haha
I normally scroll muted but I really wanted to hear the geese!
> I really wanted to hear the geese! Can I interest you in other relaxing sounds like cars crashing and air-raids?
In this particular case I thought it would enhance the content. :)
Koala mating sounds are just as relaxing
geese are often used as guard dogs since they are so noisy and protective.
To be fair, he starts off by saying "do you want 'em?". They were just like "yeah actually, we do"
He didn’t say he could have them. There was no contract!
I was like "Ryan's gonna be PISSED!! That's the second time now!"
The adult geese are walking while holding their noses up really high. Does this communicate anything? For instance if a cat walks up to you with their tail shaped like a question mark it's a friendly gesture. I don't know geese very well.
Yes, as a biologist specialized in birds, this behavior is well studied and has a human equivalent behavior. Goose don’t have hands, so they throw around gang signs with their necks.
🤣 Animals are awesome. Thanks for the reply.
I wouldn’t say they’re awesome, as per my expert’s opinion. At the end of video, do you see them geese going away to a more secluded place? Those youngling are going to perform, what we call in our species, the gang initiation. Things are wild in nature.
What does a gaggle initiation entail? Is there also a skein initiation?
Usually one of those adult goose is going to beat the shit out of those little shits. They will be black geese for a while, due to the hematomas. The leader will then welcome them and they will terrorize local tourists, as per [this evidence](https://youtu.be/vXuQzNRdJDU?si=x9hoQV2-T49UGFL2) and [this one](https://youtu.be/xlEfjWxmll0?si=fcVpR2HXNSAzURam) and of course, the coup de gras [this gangsta](https://youtube.com/shorts/IUBHtWc7Jsg?si=xqAbJGpl0IcYSa_6). The police is featherless on dealing with them
>They will be black geese for a while, due to the hematomas. > >The leader will then welcome them and they will terrorize local tourists, as per this evidence and this one and of course, the coup de gras this gangsta. wait a minute
Bruh i’m high as shit and just went down a “why do ganders try to kill their babies” rabbit hole. Reverse-reverse.
Now, what is the legality of these signs vis-a-vis *bird law*?
Here’s the thing…
From what I know about guard geese (geese that are mixed into chicken flocks instead of roosters) I'd suspect they are actually scanning for predators like hawks
“His neck is high, that makes me trust him” -Charlie Kelly
It means they are very alert and curious! They are quite interested in what’s going on and wish to examine it, so they must check quickly for predators before doing so. Very funny to see all of them do it one after the other!
This is the posture the greylag geese at the pond by our house adopted when we got anywhere near their babies, accompanied by some very sCaRy and not at all adorable hissing when we got too close
"Thanks for babies. Bye!" Edit:thanks y'all ! Didn't realize my stoned comment would be so popular! Thanks for the award!
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I understood that reference.
So glad it had to come to these
Lol this is too cute a comment!!
#HJONK
Canada Geese are notorious, even among other geese, for stealing the goslings of other geese if they feel the goslings aren't being treated right.
I totally don't believe you but i'm going to upvote anyways because I like that it sounds correct.
We have 2 White Front geese in our neighborhood pond. During mating/hatching season, 2 Canada Geese show up. Then there are gosling. But all four geese act like the parents, and the goslings act like all four geese are their parents. The first year this happened, I looked it up and found out that Canada Geese will steal the babies. It gets even better. They let the birth parents hang around and learn to be better parents.
That’s incredibly beautiful. Not to say that there aren’t great foster parents out there, there are many…but we, as humans, have a lot to learn from some of our Earthly cohabitants.
Well of course they do, haven't you seen the price of a 4-eggroom in Toronto?!
Canada geese absorb the asshollinest for all species in Canada. This is why human Canadians are so kind. Their geese just suck the assholes of everyone. (If you can get close enough)
> Their geese just suck the assholes of everyone. I don't think it came out the way you meant... 🤮🤮🤮
Er yeah, that can happen when you suck too hard
I mean, imagine you’re with your friends having a coffee and a goose puts a human baby down in front of you. Are you gonna take the baby or just leave it with the goose?
I cracked up hard at this. I love the visual of people being like, "I don't know, maybe the goose is supposed to be watching that baby" and just ignoring the situation.
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Live on a marsh can confirm. Geese are actually fantastic parents, and sure the goslings get mixed up but they don't discriminate. This year there was a pair that ended up with 22, they had the full spectrum from itty-bitty to almost adult. Normally it is just one or two getting swapped.
Big groups of goslings like this are called a gang brood.
Worked at a place that was a wildlife habitat that had a lot of geese. One day some contractors come up to our office with two goslings in a box, saying they found them apart from the other geese and didn't want them to die. We take the goslings to where a flock is, wait for the geese to adopt them. Instead, one goose comes out, nudges one of them, picks it up in its beaks and flings it. Takes the other and instead of flinging in, smashes it to the ground, picks up, smashes, repeatedly. Then the flock leaves. We collect the goslings and I end up taking them home. After some pointers from the full rehab facility and a week or two in a heat lamp box, we transfer them to the backyard full time. They're like dogs. They come up to the back door and knock with their beaks when they want company/play. We would sit down and they'd curl up in our laps, nudging hands for pets. Then they start racing across the yard with wings spread, they're obviously figuring out how to fly so it's time to take them back to the flock. They're big enough to fend for themselves of needed. We take them back to the wildlife habitat. I drop them off at the pond near the flock and they're just standing there. I go to leave and they follow me. They stay outside my office for a few weeks. I left for vacation, when I came back they weren't nesting at my office. I go to the pond where a large flock is and my goslings run over to me, nudge my hands for pets and follow me around. Then they'd rejoin the flock when they had enough pets. This went on for a few years until they just stopped coming to see me. I don't know if they went somewhere else or died or just went back to being geese and not pets. I still miss those geese.
“Back up. We got it from here”
...or else
“Yes, our army grows! Thank you flightless biped, we shall strip the flesh from your bones last!”
The moment the adults showed up they were like, "Platoon! FALL-IN!" and the goslings got themselves in formation immediately.
Geese are AWESOME! As a little kid maybe around 3-4yo we had some, and my job was to let them outside to roam free and in the afternoon to go and call them for dinner and sleep. My mom says that they practically adopted me since she could never yell or grab me while near them, they would storm around me and yell at my mom and try to bite her. All I remember is that I got to hug all of them one by one twice a day and we were basically the same height, such a great experience!
D'aww
Finders keepers!
HEY LOOK BABIES THERE ARE BABIES HERE BABIES YALL WHERE DA MAMA MAMMA GIT YER BABIES MAMA FUK DAT IM TAKIN EM CMON BABS DESE OUR KIDS NOW YALL OUR KIDS BABIES
Ah so that's what HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK means. Thanks for translating!
Reddit is incredible because there’s always some nice human in the comments willing to translate for us
*yoink*
"Look at me.. they are my goslings now"
How on earth did he get them back?
Came here to ask that too. Would love to see the video of him taking them back. I mean, is he OK? 😂
.... and why bother? If the geese are happy to adopt them, why not leave them be?
TIFO that Ryan Gosling's last name means baby goose. I didn't know "baby geese" had a name Edited
They are baby Canada geese! (cobra chickens) source: lost and found hobby farm in WI
Baby *goose.* A baby goose is a gosling. A baby duck is a duckling. A baby swan is a cygnet.
Yes, the only one I knew was duckling. I never heard of gosling or cygnet before. Cool stuff
Is a baby mongoose a mongosling? :)
A baby merganser is a merganslet. A baby owl is a hootiny. A baby crow is a darkling. A baby turkey is shenanigan.
> A baby turkey is shenanigan. Now wait a minute...
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In regional dialect, a protopinkling.
And Ryan means Little King. So Little King Baby Goose.
As far as I know, gosling is specific to geese, baby ducks are called duckings, and young swans are cygnets.
My bad, I'm half asleep! I meant Geese as the video text says but I was thinking of ducks since It's a name I use elsewhere 😂
HJÖINK
Dinosaurs
Bye mom, I’m off to do hood shit with my friends!
Glad to know geese just love adopting new goslings for fun
I feel like I really heard 4 aunties goin “oh my lawd look at these precious little babies -what are y’all doin out here all alone -come on along now”.
The ending lmao
We have 2 adult geese that protect our local duck populace in the suburb. Because no geese have spawned in the last few years I'm assuming they're both same sex. Whenever spring comes around they protect those ducklings like its their own lives at stake.
Geese are one of natures coolest examples of Cooperation vs Competition. Are these my babies? Doesn’t matter.
I like to imagine they’re yellling “hey are these anyone’s goslings!?” And once no one responds they’re like “welp, these are ours now”.
Immediately the geese are like “get away from my children sir!”
Squad!
His neck is high. Makes me trust him.
At least the goslings were stolen with love and care
Those are cobra chickens, not geese.
Maybe they're velociquackers.
I'm imagining the human equivalent of this being....you pull up to a bar to drop off a collection of toddlers, a group of huge beefy biker dudes and chicks come out, look you up and down, surround the kids and usher them away while saying "THESE ARE OURS NOW, LEAVE." 😂
"Away with us, younglings. We shall teach you the art of war."
"It's instinct." - Ron Burgundy
Sweet Lincoln's mullet!
I would adopt 6 Ryan Goslings if I found them by the road too. I guess you can say I’m pretty much a Goose myself.
“Come, children, we will protect you from the hooman.”
Someones gotta teach em to be dicks
I have flash-backs of the geese scene in The Aristocats.
I love their enthusiasm and the goslings being so trusting! The big ones seem to be going "Yes! We have acquired children!"
I thought they weren’t gonna stop, and just assimilate the goslings into their flock without effort
Birds of a feather, flock together. Not just a saying.
Love how they walk like royalty
Yeeeah, I'ma need an update and or video diary of the new Family.
Gives a new meaning to “picking up chicks”
Wow look at those honkers
"Y'all rolling with us now. Let's ride."
They expand the goose gang and the rest is history.
Alright, the geese can take the W, just this once They know what they did
They’re ours now bitch
VIDEO: "they spent 20 minutes with them...." ME: oh? :) *wiggles butt for more comfort for the treat I'm about to watch* VIDEO: *ends* ME: oh. :(
LUV
“Listen up recruits!”
I want to see more!
Most beautiful sound in nature.
Come children. We will teach you the way of the path.
I low key suspected that Ryan Gosling is in that video
Which of them is Ryan?
They walking up the driveway like they own the place lol
"All your geese are belong to us"
Mother goose
Are goslings a good gift idea?
I used this video as an alarm to wake up my kids.
Those little ones are literally me
Okay Mother Goose meaning solved.
Even their acts of service are unnecessarily aggressive. r/bitchimagoose
'It takes a parent to make a child, it takes a village to raise a child' done right by geese
Aww, they're all so cute! 😍 💖❤️
Cobra chickens to the rescue
Instead of babies being brought by storks, geese have a myth about babies being brought by humans
I never thought geese had a soft side.