I was driving down the road and there was a flock of geese chilling in a field. Then all of sudden five random geese got up at the same time and flew off together. But these five geese weren't together, they were in different spots in the group, but just all got up and flew away together at the same time.
How smart are these things? I mean I understand a whole flock getting up and leaving, but these five #######s must have been planning to leave at the same time. Smart.
In the same neighborhood I was also chased by a huge soft shell . That was really weird. Her neck was all the way out;; at first I thought it was a snake.
I could tell she was female because of her large size. Perhaps she had a nest nearby.
Nice to see you interested in wildlife, flameswin. lol
Animals have 'instinctual' behaviors we haven't completely quantified yet, but are seen in aviatory and migratory species.
Some scientists believe the migratory animals sense of magnetic poles is so strong it actually appears as a dot in their field of vision.
Also other animals have senses, which we understand, but dont feel. For example porpoises and bats echolocation would truly be a sixth sense if we could experience it first hand. We get how it works, simple actually, but they live it. Some have imagined it combines with their other sense like sight, to make us all look like skeletons. Which to them, is normal and not scary.
My take, geese are dumb. We all know that. But there is probably behavioural and even sensory info they are getting that you don't get when you bail into their flock.
To further explian senses we don't have, snakes sense minute electrical impulses with their tongue.
We have five senses. It's easy to get lost in that.
The world is not always our five senses. And not how we interpret it. They don't just receive that info. Their brains are shaped by it. Like a brain that is colorblind, senses electricty, sees the poles, and bounces radio of you.
Geese always fly in sets of 3 at minimum, in a V formation, for air resistance reasons. They rotate between flying lead and resting while flying tail. If one goose gets too tired to continue flying, he will land and at least 2 other geese will land with him, so when he goes to fly again he will have enough partners to keep flying.
So, I realize it doesn't really answer your question, but it kind of explains how geese work, so I am going to say that these 5 just were done resting/eating/etc and wanted to get going.
It's not like a family road trip to the Grand Canyon where the police get upset if you leave a couple kids at a gas station.
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Geese always fly in sets of 3 at minimum, in a V formation, for air resistance reasons. They rotate between flying lead and resting while flying tail. If one goose gets too tired to continue flying, he will land and at least 2 other geese will land with him, so when he goes to fly again he will have enough partners to keep flying.
So, I realize it doesn't really answer your question, but it kind of explains how geese work, so I am going to say that these 5 just were done resting/eating/etc and wanted to get going.
It's not like a family road trip to the Grand Canyon where the police get upset if you leave a couple kids at a gas station.
That is 100% incorrect.
I have seen geese flying in pairs and solo many, many times.
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