That happened to me today. Was feeding a flock of them at the lake and one that I already fed hissed and nipped my leg then fucked off into the lake. Greedy bastard!
@@LakeNipissing The eyes are on the side of the head, but when it looks directly at the camera you can see it is looking forward with both eyes for a bit. Please, help us if you have cobra chicken knowledge
@@shneblyboy3604 Trombones, like most instruments, range from the highest pitched piccolo trombone, to the lowest pitched contrabass trombone. And no, I'm not making those up. I had to look them up to confirm that they exist
@@lorenzovlucid9118funny that you mention cats. I let my dog out on grass, outside my house, this morning. He’s really friendly and chill. I was daydreaming as he was doing his thing and all of a sudden, I hear cat screaming. I knew my dog wouldn’t hurt or attack and I assumed that my dog got to close to cat that lives otherwise of the small grass, probably trying to just say hello. I looked up and it was the neighbours cat and it was fighting another local cat. Was kinda funny. My dog usually freaks out when he hears cats fighting or any loud scary noise but he totally ignored it and carried on sniffing the grass, doing a wee etc. Neighbour with cat always has front door open in morning and I guess they are used to their cat fighting , because they didn’t even come out to investigate. 😂
I am around any random geese (greylag, canada, egyptian) almost daily. DAILY. for at least 10 years. And never been bitten. Geese are the best. Very spiritual and meditative to meet these guys. Intelligent social modern dinosaus for sure. I love the cute little hisses of canada geese. It means "don't hurt me, then I won't hurt you either." good good :) @@Cobra_Chicken
If you are near from their nest, tell me I have some experience for a mall door a geese let their eggs in mall door and I didn’t know I think the dad attack me
I've "played" with these birds many times and have spent time with them day and night, to the point that I was accepted as a member of the flock. These birds can be amazingly caring once you get to know them. They each have their own very defined personalities and will absolutely take you in if you follow the correct flock protocol. This hissing isn't too aggressive. It's more like saying, "I don't know if I should trust you or not." If he was being threatening, his head would be close to the ground, his neck would form an "S" with the hackles standing up as far as short hackles can, and he would high step toward you. The only one of those things present here is the hissing. He's always standing sideways so that he can make a quick escape to the water if someone tries to catch him. While he's a bit unsure, he's not completely frightened, and he shows it by eating hungrily out of the man's hand. The one thing the man might have done differently would have been to kneel down to the goose's level as he approached him. If you know a few of the reassurance sounds they make, kneeling down in conjunction with making those sounds while moving your head forward and up in repeated circles would let the goose know you want to be friends. You really shouldn't try to make that movement unless you've been taught how, of have witnessed many times how the geese do it when welcoming each other. If you make the wrong head movement, you could be declaring war. They have a very complex language with lots of meaning to it, and if you have an idea what's being said, you can get along with them just fine. I tell you this with over half a century of watching them and eventually interacting with them, and on two occasions earning the honour of being cresh mother for a day.
I used to hate geese but a couple years ago I made friends with one at the smoking area outside where I work. I would throw him pieces of lettuce from my sandwich. always knew it was him because he was the only one that didnt hiss at me and would get really close to where I sat. I called him "bro-goose" or "bruce" for short
Awww that’s such a wholesome story! The geese at my local pond are my homies, That’s funny because I named one of the geese from that pond Big Bruce, he was the alpha male, he him and his wife Bailey had goslings in 2020 one of them had angel wing disease sadly, but he had such an attitude but would gently eat from my hand, same with this one gander that I named Brutus, he has that same attitude but is soft on the inside and lets me pet him, Geese aren’t always mean, I love them.
Can confirm from personal experience that, while rare, they _can_ be friendly if they know they can trust you. I once had a pair that was fairly chill even when they had babies around.
You aggressively hiss at strangers just walking past you on the road? Now I'm scared of you too (just a joke, please don't hiss, bite or peck my eyes out!)
Nah they have infinite love and devotion to their family and mates. But to other geese? To humans? They're assholes. It isn't so much hatred as a compulsive need to be mean to and attack others. I say this as someone who loves them. I can be sitting down 5 feet away from them, holding a bag of birdseed, in the process of sitting down to feed them, and they'll hiss at me as they approach me for food.
dont really get it. if your reffering to the myth they are protected in canada, it is a myth, there are actually 2 hunting seasons for them per year. far from protected...
That looks exactly how i expected my goose encounter to go. The little Canadians that came to see me were super friendly, polite, and posed for some adorable pictures, too. I got nipped while they were getting treats, but it was gentle... i couldn't tell they had teeth, though i know better. Absolutely no hissing, which kinda shocked me. They let us leave with our picnic without issue or the entire flock following us, too. We knew we didn't have much we could share. Last thing i want to do is leave a wild animal sick from what i feed it. Just glad to see they aren't all jerks. I'll have to buy a bag of goose feed for our next picnic, though XD there were at least 30 of them that wanted to join, and they weren't the biggest flock at the park!
My family used to feed the geese frequently twice a year when they’d be going south/coming back north at the changing of seasons and eventually after a few generations NONE of the geese were hostile to us. They’d let us walk right up to their chicks and everything. It literally takes inter generational change to get them to not be assholes.
