Geese are not only popular birds in agriculture, they are also pets for some lovers of these creatures. Differences between wild and domestic geese are enough – they formed over the years, which passed after domestication of geese.
Like swans, geese are monogamous – they choose a couple once and for all, at about the age of three. If the partner dies, mourning at the goose can last for several years.
Defending its nest, a goose can be terrible – it can even damage a person.
Leaving the nest for a while, the goose always masks it with grass and twigs.
To make the nest warmer and cozy, the goose pulls out its own down feathers and uses them as a building material.
Before the invention of fountain pens people wrote goose feathers.
Geese are long-lived, they can live up to a quarter of a century.
Small goslings can swim already a day after birth.
During molting, which lasts about a month and a half for geese, these birds can not fly.
Goose is considered a sacred bird in Tibet.
Goose feathers are covered with fat, and therefore the water from them simply rolls down. Hence the expression “like water from a gusher”.
In the US, on some cotton plantations, geese are used to weed the beds. Cotton geese do not eat, but they weed out the weeds and eat them very effectively.
For long-distance flights the goose flock can rise to a height of up to eight kilometers. The officially registered record is a bit more than 10 kilometers. At this altitude, a man without an oxygen mask can no longer breathe, and because of low pressure he loses consciousness.
Contrary to popular belief, not all geese have red paws – it depends on the breed.
