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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, ganzen, ganzerik, New High German Gans, Gänse, and Ganter, and Old Norse gás and gæslingr, whence English gosling.
A small flock of Pilgrim Geese - an example of color-sexing goose; males are white, females are gray. The plumage of male and female goose is usually the same. However, there are few auto-sexing goose, which are sexually dimorphic and the sex can be identified by the first look by plumage.
The study started in the spring of 1950 with 2 male and 4 female pilgrim geese which were mated together in two breeding pens. [15] The geese were bred progressively for 5 years and by 1954, there were 16 breeding pens each with 1 gander and 5 females. [15] All the geese were trap-nested 7 days a week for the duration of the laying season.
The Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca) is an African member of the Anatidae family including ducks, geese, and swans. Because of their popularity chiefly as an ornamental bird , the species has also been introduced to Europe, the United States and elsewhere outside their natural range.
The Chinese is an international breed of domestic goose, known by this name in Europe and in North America. Unlike the majority of goose breeds, it belongs to the knob geese, which derive from Anser cygnoides and are characterised by a prominent basal knob on the upper side of the bill. It originates in China, where there are more than twenty ...
The karyotype of the swan goose is 2n=80, consisting of four pairs of macrochromosomes, 35 pairs of microchromosomes, and a pair of sex chromosomes. The two largest macrochromosome pairs as well as the Z (female) chromosome are submetacentric, while the third-largest chromosome pair is acrocentric and the fourth-largest is metacentric.
Male geese are very protective of their young and female geese. Especially when their eggs are being incubated. Males don't take their duties lightly, they'll do what they need to to ward off a ...
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).