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Yes, Goosifer! My mother raised African? Geese in our backyard. Great alarms if someone walked into the backyard. Most would be sent to a butcher then a grocer for Thanksgiving. I've been attacked, bit, and thumped by their wings leaving bruises. I was just herding to fresh grass, not trying to catch them. You forgot the loud hissing during the wing-spread. Usually head down they, especially the ganders, as come at you. You're lucky they didn't plant a flag and stay. Glad you had peace, I hope, after feathered threat left.

Syllabus week. Small update :P

Oh nice!

I like the one with the Umbrella Thorn and the Palm Trees. In the exhibit in the upper left there is meat chow, wouldnt a carnivore kill the birds?

Yesss, absolutely evil. They're actually the inspiration behind a lot of my usernames including this one lol. The one spring they set up nest next to my front door in Indiana. Even after long overnight shifts at the ER I still had to look out for an entire gaggle of geese come at me just for trying to get inside my building because they think I want their eggs. It got to the point where I'd wear my thick winter jacket just to get 5 seconds of armor as I'd dash inside because those twisty-pecks hurt. They have teeth! This is how I learned birds are dinosaurs! They have teeth!! Looking back it was funny the things me and my roommate would do just to work around them. I'd go buy groceries and he'd stand by the door with a swinging golf club like a dumb suburban samurai just to keep them at bay as I'd rush in hoping they'd focus on the spectacle. Of course you can't hurt them because they're protected and they know it...so you can only scare them away. If you can anyway. They don't scare easy unless you have a dog, and I don't mean a chihuaha. They'll beat up your chihuaha and honk as they do it. Anyway this went on for weeks until the eggs hatched and the chicks goslings left the nest but my friends loved my goose trauma stories every night so they nicknamed me Goose in real life... Here's a fun fact if you've never had the pleasure of treating with these donuts: these jerks try to make themselves bigger by extending their whole wingspan like they're challenging you to a fight and will hiss at you as a warning to not get closer. Hence, well, cobra chickens. If they chase you it's a good time to turn on the Fitbit because you're going to be working out for a few minutes and it's up to the goose when you get to take a sit. Either that or run past a child they love chasing them. Absolutely not influenced by my experience with them by the way but I do hear they taste good with butter. This concludes my goose ted talk for the night. (I will never miss out on an open opportunity to air my long-standing beef (poultry?) with canadian geese. That spring was awful!)

Cobra chickens ! Canadian geese are evil! A flock of them once chased me and my 2 German Shepherds out of a park. We had barely set foot on the grass when they all looked at us and came for us at a dead run!

We must now complete the cycle with some cobra chickens (canadian gooses)

the Indian Cobras are also guilty of baby-booming 😂

Small report on the Phoenix Chicken: they breed and poop a lot lol. It's kind of my fault in the first place for making such a tiny aviary, but I wanted to mention it regardless. I sell off their babies frequently to keep up with them.

Off topic, but I have my projects folder uploaded again, in case anyone is interested. As for you, Goosifer, take care of yourself! I know, for me, college was both the best and worst time of my life. Study diligently, make friends and don't over-extend yourself!

They´re carnivores, only rarely eating something else than meat or insect. They can be quite vicious, especially when human-raised. I read story from zookeeper about hand-raised female that killed her mate, and bit off an eye of a marabou stork in exhibit next to hers.