Alice White
Geese are not only birds popular in agriculture, they are also pets for some lovers of these creatures. There are enough differences between wild and domestic geese – they took shape over the years that have passed since the domestication of geese.
- Like swans, geese are monogamous – they choose a mate for themselves once and for all, at about the age of three. If the partner dies, then the goose’s mourning can last for several years.
- Defending its nest, a goose can be scary – it can even cripple a person.
- Leaving the nest for a while, the goose each time disguises it with grass and twigs.
- To make the nest warmer and more comfortable, the goose plucks out its own down feathers and uses them as a building material.
- Before the invention of fountain pens, people wrote with quills.
- Geese are long-lived, they can live up to a quarter of a century.
- Small goslings are able to swim within 24 hours after birth.
- The goose is considered a sacred bird in Tibet.
- Goose feathers are covered with fat, and therefore the water simply rolls off them. This is where the expression “like water off a duck’s back” came from.
- In the United States, on some cotton plantations, geese are used to weed beds. Geese do not eat cotton, but they pluck out weeds and eat them very effectively.
- With long-distance flights, a goose flock can rise to a height of up to eight kilometers. The officially registered record is just over 10 kilometers. At such a height, a person without an oxygen mask can no longer breathe, and because of the low pressure, he loses consciousness.
- Contrary to popular belief, not all geese have red paws – it depends on the breed.
