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Birds totally experience rage at inanimate objects like humans. If an objects get in their way or doesn't behave the way they want for long enough, they'll star
by dj_mc_merlin 3y ago
Birds totally experience rage at inanimate objects like humans. If an objects get in their way or doesn't behave the way they want for long enough, they'll start smacking it. Vicious and intelligent things.
- ethbr1 3y agoTo parrot the above, if you've never seen a goose in Florida get pissed off at a parked car bumper, you haven't lived. They're hilariously persistent in their anger.
- I_Am_Nous 3y agoI don't know what it is about geese but they seem like they are total jerks most of the time. Maybe just because they are one of the more common large wild animals humans can interact with and film and the geese make it clear they want to be left alone.
- miriam_catira 3y agoThere was a corporate office park I encountered once that had a pond, and they had swans in it. The swans entertained themselves by chasing office workers to and from the carpark every morning. ... in my experience, if waterfowl come at you hissing, just look bigger and hiss back - as long as it's smaller than a swan.
- gopher_space 3y agoThe main problem is that people get pissed if you treat a city swan like a farm swan, just punting it out of the way or throwing it by the neck.
- wishfish 3y agoI once worked at a similar office park. A pair of geese chased secretaries and CEOs alike. Very egalitarian. No one was spared. All ran to their cars in fear. But there was one day when they met their match. Another pair of geese appeared like magic. Just wandering around like they owned the place. The original pair were not happy. They hissed and waved their wings in anger. The new pair did the same. Uncowed. The original pair decided to charge the interlopers and chase them off. Lowered their necks. Went full speed at them. Then slammed into the glass doors because they were attacking their own reflections. They spent the rest of the day, greatly humbled, swimming around the office park pond. Gave everyone a break for a couple of days before resuming the usual CEO & secretary hunt.
- static_motion 3y agoI, too, have watched that one video of a bird getting angry at a box of blueberries whose lid wouldn't stay up.
- viraptor 3y agoI'm really enjoying the missing comma in the first sentence.