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The word "goose" is a direct descendant of Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.In Germanic languages, the root gave Old English gōs with the plural gēs and gandra (becoming Modern English goose, geese, gander, respectively), West Frisian goes, gies and guoske, Dutch: gans, New High German Gans, Gänse, and Ganter, and Old Norse gās and gæslingr, whence English gosling.
The amount of social monogamy in animals varies across taxa, with over 90% of birds engaging in social monogamy while only 3–9% of mammals are known to do the same. [6] [29] [30] This list is not complete. Other factors may also contribute to the evolution of social monogamy.
The Canada goose (Branta canadensis) is a large species of goose with a black head and neck, white cheeks, white under its chin, and a brown body. It is native to the arctic and temperate regions of North America, and it is occasionally found during migration across the Atlantic in northern Europe.
The ducks, geese, and swans are small- to large-sized birds with a broad and elongated general body plan. [2] Diving species vary from this in being rounder. Extant species range in size from the cotton pygmy goose , at as little as 26.5 cm (10.5 in) and 164 g (5.8 oz), to the trumpeter swan , at as much as 183 cm (6 ft) and 17.2 kg (38 lb).
Greylag geese tend to pair bond in long-term monogamous relationships. [27] Most such pairs are probably life-long partnerships, though 5 to 8% of the pairs separate and re-mate with other geese. [27] Birds in heterosexual pairs may engage in promiscuous behavior, despite the opposition of their mates. [27]
These birds are monogamous and mate for life. They may spend a few months out to sea apart, but they come back to the same place every year to breed and nest. It’s not only new mating pairs that ...
A domestic goose is a goose that humans have domesticated and kept for their meat, eggs, or down feathers, or as companion animals.Domestic geese have been derived through selective breeding from the wild greylag goose (Anser anser domesticus) and swan goose (Anser cygnoides domesticus).
The Sebastopol goose is said to have originated in southeastern Europe near the Black Sea, but are known in America by this name because they were originally imported to the U.S. from that city in ...