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Canada geese demonstrate the confounding difficulty of eating an apple.

The frustration is palpable. I'm no fan of the Canada goose, but it almost makes you want to cut up an apple for them, doesn't it?

Video by Meade from a mountain bike trail in Wisconsin.

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rhhardin म्हणाले...

Roll them onto roads and wait for a vehicle-based crush.

Buckwheathikes म्हणाले...

From every golfer on the planet:

There's a reason these guys eat grass. You do not want a bunch of drunk Canadaian geese flying around with fermented little green apple diarrhea squirting everyone and everything in sight.

Amadeus 48 म्हणाले...

Those darn things poop every six minutes. It must be the diet.

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

I said "I'm no fan of the Canada goose" and I don't need to be reminded why. Yes, they overshit. But let's talk about the effort to eat apples.

It's like the apple-on-a-string game humans play for laughs. But the geese aren't laughing. They don't even realize that we are laughing at them.

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

They just keep trying the same method. I think they've been trying that for a million years. They never get any ideas about any other way, but they keep trying, the same way over and over.

rehajm म्हणाले...

I feel the gooses pain. I’m in the south and am missing apple season a peck.

tim maguire म्हणाले...

Animals, having no real sense of time, can be extraordinarily patient.

rcocean म्हणाले...

Well, if you're a Goose how are going to eat a hard apple? You don't have teeth. You can sorta peck at it, but its too hard.

Plus they roll away. And all you got is your webbed feet and you beak. Probably the only solution is to push it against something and keep stabbing it with your beak, till you break off a piece.

Crows are smarter and have better "tools" available. They'd pick up the apple, fly up a tree, and drop it, or with their sharp beaks peck and tear it. Birds in our neighborhood go after the pears from a massive pear tree. But they wait till the pears are ripe enough.

Yancey Ward म्हणाले...

"Almost makes you want to cut up an apple for them"

No. Makes me want roast goose.

Jaq म्हणाले...

I would step on the ones on the ground I didn’t want, and then the chickens would dive in, like when you dropped an egg.

If geese could eat apples, they would be extinct, like the Carolina parrot.

boatbuilder म्हणाले...

As a golfer, it makes me want to send a pack of Border Collies after them.

n.n म्हणाले...

A tale of flippers and bills. My dog could educate geese to the former.

Lincolntf म्हणाले...

The first goose who figures out how to grab the apple in its bill and then drop it onto a rock to break/soften it, in the way of seagulls and clams, will be a legend among the gaggle.

Ralph L म्हणाले...

Apples are usually served with pork, not goose.

Rusty म्हणाले...

If it's any consolation today was the opener for the special 14 day Canada Goose season in Illinois. 5 a day.
We depleted the local population by one.

Meade म्हणाले...

Canada needs to send us better geese.

Howard म्हणाले...

Well the fox and his wife, without any strife,
cut up the goose with a carving knife.
They never had such a supper in their life,
and the little ones chewed on the bones-o, the bones-o, the bones-o.
They never had such a supper in their life,
and the little ones chewed on the bones-o.

7.62x54 R म्हणाले...

Rusty,
In most of New York the early season is the first 25 days of September and the daily limit is 15. I do not know what you would do with two never mind 375.

Narayanan म्हणाले...

as wine decanters ?

Narayanan म्हणाले...

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A: use for home handicraft down products >>>
Q: I do not know what you would do with two never mind 375.

mikee म्हणाले...

I'd guess they can eat the apples after they soften and become mushy. The apples get mushy, I mean, not the geese.

Shall we list other things geese cannot eat? I'll start with pears, grapefruit and cantelope. Kliban wrote an entire book titled,"Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head."

Wince म्हणाले...

Why does it sound like my father's (silent) 8mm home movie camera from the 1950s?

Black Bellamy म्हणाले...

They demonstrate the confounding difficulty of eating an apple in a broader sense that apples are generally frustrating to eat?

Shouldn't it be just theirs? Or well I guess any living thing that normally doesn't eat apples? Apples are pretty easy to eat if their size and hardness are within the range of foods you normally consume.

ElPresidenteCastro म्हणाले...

You stuff the goose with apples immediately before placing it in the oven.