Weak ass bones if a 10 lb bird breaks em.
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BooBees@fedinsfw.app 3 weeks ago
Spoken like someone who didn’t grow up around geese. Those fuckers can break a human leg bone or arm bone with their wing. Not even remotely kidding. They’re fear by most animals for good reason.
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
LycanGalen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
From this popsci article: “Bird wings may not seem all that threatening. After all, like most other birds that fly, the bones in goose wings are hollow. But because geese can weigh up to 25 pounds, the muscles in those wings are incredibly strong. They have to be to lift such a heavy bird into the air and carry it hundreds of miles at a time during migration.
So you really don’t want to be pummeled by those wings—they can quickly knock down a full-grown adult and cause scrapes, stitches, even broken bones. All of these injuries have been reported after goose assaults.”
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
knock down a full-grown adult and cause scrapes, stitches, even broken bones
Bolded the important parts.
Falling over for any reason can cause scrapes, stitches, even broken bones, regardless of the instigating factor.
An adult weighing three times as much of a goose doesn’t fall over because the goose is strong. They fall over because of being startled into losing their balance, which is a feat a sparrow or a mouse could also accomplish.
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Propaganda from big goose. That article was funded by goose & co.
realitista@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
Really would love to know how a hollow bird bone is meant to break a human bone.
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
It scares you and you fall over. Trying to put your hands out to save you and break something in the fall.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Those fuckers can break a human leg bone or arm bone with their wing
That’s an urban myth about swans.
In reality, the bones of both swans and geese are hollow like straw and about as likely to break human bones.
FluidBeef@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
Dogs still can’t look up though.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Nice Shaun of the Dead reference 😄👌🏼
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
No they can’t lmao what?
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They’re feared by most animals because most animals (humans included) aren’t willing to risk a fight unless they need to, while geese have a solid intimidation game, and make to believe that they’re big and strong and will fight you.
A 5 kg dog can also scare off plenty of people. That doesn’t mean an average grown person can’t punt it across the yard if push comes to shove. Plenty of videos out there show what happens when one of these animals actually goes after someone’s kid… the kid usually ends up fine to put it that way.
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Had a few dogs come after me. The difficult part is I would rather not hurt a dog, it is the owner who deserves a punch in the face.
Usually happens when I am on a bike which is a bit of an awkward position to respond to an ankle biter. I don’t want to run it over but I also don’t want to stop moving away. Of course if I had to I could flatten it with my bike.
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Exactly! There’s also the significant point that you could get bit in the process of kicking away said dog, and the bite could give you an infection, which all comes back to why we (like most animals) will go very far to avoid a physical altercation.
Basically, fighting shit can be dangerous, even in situations where you easily come out on top 10/10 times. That doesn’t mean the fucking chihuahua has a chance.
rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio 3 weeks ago
A gøøse once bit my sister
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
They kan be pretty nasti
BetterDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
No realli! She was Karving her initials on the g00se with the sharpened end of an interspace t00thbrush given by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian m0vies: “The H0t Hands of an Oslo Dentist”, “Fillings of Passion”, “The Huge M0lars of Horst Nordfink”.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I think this meme might predate the internet, brb gonna do some research.
NuanceDemon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How fucking big are your geese?
Nothing near me is anywhere near that hardcore.
BevsDad@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I could see a swan fucking you up but a goose? No way unless you’re shoving your fingers down its mouth.
Varesti@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
This was written by a goose.