The Cackling Goose Is Particularly Notable For Being Not-at-all Invented By Me In A Mad Rush To Get A

The Cackling Goose is particularly notable for being not-at-all invented by me in a mad rush to get a suitable entry together for April Fool’s Day. They look almost identical to the much more commonly recognized Canada Goose, differentiated by the fact that they are very slightly smaller and have grey-ish body feathers instead of brown-ish. Rest assured, I did not simply find a picture of a juvenile Canada Goose; this is a real actual bird that does exist.

can people use birds to predict the future

I know in my heart of hearts that you mean well by asking, and there is no ill intent to this question buuuuuuuuut… that question is incredibly ignorant of long-standing social dynamics and sociological apologetics which sweep incredible sins against birds (and other animals; we may focus on one injustice but we must never forget all) under the rug.For many, many years humans have exploited various birds for their powers of prophecy. Nowadays humans tend to use non-violent approaches to harness bird’s sight into times yet untold (simple observation, tracking stock purchases, recording migration patterns) but there remain people who trust in The Old Ways and very little is done to stop them.

Have you ever heard the story of the Goose which laid golden eggs? It is of course mythology, but as with all myths there remains a seed of truth. In reality, an innkeeper once befriended a Grouse; in return for food and shelter, the bird prognosticated on weather patterns and travelling parties so the innkeeper could lay in adequate food supplies while minimizing spoilage.

This arrangement continued for several years, though every year the Grouse would make some very pointed comments about how it really should attend the migration. Every year the innkeeper would convince the Grouse to stay at the inn a bit longer, offering higher quality feed and roomier nesting areas. Every year the Grouse accepted the innkeeper’s offer, and many of his best years were spent helping enrich somebody else in exchange for moderate comfort.

I’m going to pause here and put the last part behind a jump as it is a very unhappy ending that people don’t need on their dash.

One day the bird decided that it had lived at the inn long enough, and undertook to leave. Enraged by this decision, the innkeeper attacked the Grouse with a knife and split it open from breast to tail. In it’s final panicked moments of life, the poor bird’s entrails spilled out and arranged themselves into one last prophecy.Realizing how much easier it was to simply kill the bird than care for it, the innkeeper spent what little money would have gone to feed and house birds instead on their capture and wholesale slaughter, solely for his own gain. Seeing his success, others followed suit and thus Haruspicy was born. The practice of murdering birds to read the future continues to this day and THAT is why the question which started this post angers me with it’s ignorance. Yes, humans DO use birds to predict the future, and do so while refusing to acknowledge the incredible violence done by their predecessors and contemporaries.

Yusuke Murata (a leading paleontologist) has completed years of dedicated reconstruction work, and proven once and for all that the Tyrannosaurus Rex was in fact more fearsome than anyone could have possibly imagined. These fierce beasts were at least twenty times cuddlier and flooftastic than even the most adorable snugglebugs known to modern science, and woe betide unto those who smoosh their faces into its adorable feathery tum tum as the Tyrant King knows no mercy.

Now unfortunately extinct, the Portrait-Sitting Chicken was a very important breed for aspiring models back during the early days of photography. Unlike oil painting where both artist and model could take breaks while working on a single image, early cameras required models to sit perfectly still or risk completely ruining the image. While not ordinarily photographed themselves, Portrait-Sitting Chickens were used to train aspiring models to remain perfectly still or risk having an angry flapping mess tangled up in their hair.

The unassuming Tree Swallow is a remarkable example of symbiosis. While their tiny beaks render them incapable of eating anything but the smallest of caterpillars, this nutritional deficiency is completely alleviated by the photosynthetic colony of blue-green algae which give these birds their characteristic iridescence. In return for vital nutrients, the cyanobacteria are allowed a rich and varied travel life as the host swallow migrates all across North America.

In times of plenty, Kingfisher birds can forgo their more active hunting methods in favour of simply waiting on an outcropping near water, beak agape.