31 thoughts on “The world’s most bravest goose”

  1. Don’t mess with geese. I remember having to walk past a farmyard with a dozen or so on my way to school when 5 – 7 years old. Terrifying creatures. The ubiquitous collie dogs were better behaved.

    1. I lived in rural Missouri when I was five, and I, too, remember the geese as being particularly nasty.

  5. I think the gorilla was unfairly maligned here. Such fowl treatment from a bird he was only having a gander at.

    All night, folks.

    1. I just read “King Solomon’s Ring” … and now I can’t see or think about geese without envisioning Konrad waddeling about in his garden 🙂

  7. I had a pet goose growing up…believe me, no one entered our yard uninvited. They are very aggressive animals.

    1. You’d have to check their passports to be sure but I’d bet they are undocumented immigrants (or their parents were)….probably just flew across the border at some remote location and stayed. USA needs higher border fences – these kind of geese have been reported flying at up to 22,000 Ft.

  9. The gorilla isn’t going to eat the goose, so what is the point in getting into a fight.

    The best thing to do is retreat from the ignorant and stubborn bird so that he doesn’t have to kill it.

      2. Now I have the same question of that video. I guess the answer will be another instance, even more ESL.

        But at least I now know you weren’t alluding to Mark Anthony.

  11. A lot of farmers used to keep geese as watch dogs. Anyone coming onto the property was greeted with a tumultuous honking and then attacked by beaks and flapping wings. Moral: Never mess with an angry goose.

  13. ‘Most bravest’? One cannot be braver than bravest! Most brave would be acceptable!

  15. Having grown up by the sea, the one thing that you learn to avoid very early on is the Mute Swan….

    Geese don’t mess about either.

  16. We had resident Canada geese on campus, and one pair would nest by a campus pond in a high traffic area. The student newspaper would runs stories about leave the geese alone. So long as one stayed on the sidewalk, the geese would pay no attention. Occasionally some fool would try to harass them and get well run off to the laughter of all spectators.

    I used to fly control line model airplanes by a lake. Canada geese would fly in over the lake and settle down on shore next to the flying circle. Never a problem.

  17. The grounds of the place I used to work were infested with Canada geese (because it there were large ponds, I think). On one lunch time stroll I got faced down by a gander with goslings to protect. Damn big aggressive birds.

    OTOH, we were once at a campground in Georgia that featured: Canada geese that insistently begged for food, and half-a-dozen semi-feral cats (the staff left food out for them at the washroom building). Now the *cats* didn’t seem to have much problem chasing off the geese. I have photos somewhere in the archives. Cats rule!

  18. A friend (who I haven’t seen in years, alas) used to raise geese to sell as poultry as one of the things she used to do in life. According to her, geese love crunchy vegetables, and despite having no teeth, they are vicious biters, especially when hungry, sexually aroused, or territorial.

    Gorillas are calm, almost placid vegetarians most of the time and likely also don’t know what to make of giant agressive birds.

  19. Rome used to honour geese as sacred due to them raising the alarm during an invasion.

    We Canadians will pick on anyone.

  21. Obviously the plastic shroud had air holes in it or he would have smothered himself. What was to stop imaginary spirits to winkle their way into the shroud?

    If someone wants to make bovine clods of themselves there’s no better way of doing it than by using a fundamentalist religion as your wheelbarrow.

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