My God. He may have died, but can any of us truly say we have lived half as much as he did?
RIP Thomas
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Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
OmegaMouse@pawb.social 10 months ago
Swans can live for 40 years?!
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
He’s a goose. 40 is very old for a goose though. Might not be true. It’s too old for a swan though. The longest lifespan I can find for any swan is 40 years (49 for a goose). For black swans specifically 24.7 years: Black swan (Cygnus atratus) longevity, ageing, and life history - genomics.senescence.info/species/entry.php?specie…
It looks like black swans are extra gay?
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
That’s a lot of honking
474D@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Evil and spite are the greatest life extenders
cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
2018! how do you dig up those old gem 💎? You have a folder with it or you recycle Reddit ♻️? Genuinely asking.
passepartout@feddit.org 10 months ago
Not OP, but I actually downloaded all of my saved posts when I left Reddit with the apicalypse. Maybe I should dig that up and start cooking 🍝
cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Nice
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 9 months ago
gone at the peak of his performance, such a shame
ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 9 months ago
'beak ’ of his performance.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
The bear known as “The Boss” is up there in animal hall-of-fame: mountainsandtreasures.ca/the-big-boss-bear-of-ban…
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The BAMF of Banff.
Evotech@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Sad :( he was so close to his goal of 69 babies
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Seven years in and the headline’s place in history remains strong.
wewbull@feddit.uk 9 months ago
I think the only way it gets beaten is if the goose gets a better name. Say… “Ferdinand” or Ferdy for short.
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Thats an old goose dayum
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 10 months ago
Genuinely if you keep an eye on a particular group of social birds for a while some kind of telenovela drama will unfold without fail. Even pigeons have fascinating lives once you get to know them individually. But for me nothing beats swans and peacocks. They’re so expressive about everything.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
This is why I love my hens.
Like, I had no idea. I didn’t even want chickens. One day my wife comes home with a 6-pack.
Now tho? I could spend a whole day sitting outside, stoned, just watching them live their life. It’s like a soap opera with miniature dinosaurs.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 10 months ago
Yeah you get it 😄
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Man, I’m so with you.
We got into it by accident too. I’d been around chickens when I was younger, but never our own, so it’s a totally different experience.
Our little trio is a source of infinite joy and entertainment. Only reason we don’t have more is being at the physical limit of what we can take care of. I’d have a yard full if it were otherwise.
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What other good things in life come in 6-packs, I wonder.
Pringles@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
We have blackbirds in our garden and I swear that I have seen the females shout at their lazy ass husband several times. They will tweet angrily, fly after them, hop after them, pull feathers from their tails and whatnot. True drama every time.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 10 months ago
Blackbirds are awesome too! Very trusting especially for their size. It’s almost like they enjoy the attention.
lemmyknow@lemmy.today 10 months ago
I’ve noticed pigeons in recent times. You sometimes see one mofo chasing another, and the other keeps running away like it being chased by some creep. Then, once the second one stops and the original gets near them, the original mofo starts spinning in place, tryina rizz 'em up. Usually leads nowhere, though I once spotted a successful pigeon. Said pigeon then jumped atop the other pigeon. A blink-and-you’ll-miss thing, so quick before they left. It’s something I now notice quite often, having noticed this interesting pattern.
Balinares@pawb.social 10 months ago
Is your pigeons’ threatspin routine like, 360 spin one way then 360 spin the other way then charge? That’s what I’ve observed most often. You can tell how pissed the pigeon is by the speed of the spin too.