SOL 9- Geese

          Geese are the best. I can not think of a better way to say this: they basically give the middle finger to humans, which I think is amazing. For example, I live by a park, and when I walk past geese they just barely move and hiss. Most birds and animals would skitter away after barely seeing me. The same goes for most water fowl and their flipping off of humans. Other than their sassy fabulous attitudes, they are just amazing birds. Besides, who would not want goslings wandering around a park a block away from your house? It is the cutest thing ever. In one of the gardens there is a mother goose sitting on like 12 eggs, and she just sits there and hisses at you if you get close. She is my spirit animal. Anyways, geese are one of my favorite animals, if you couldn't tell already.
          Even though they are quite fabulous, the amount of excrement they leave behind for dogs to feast on is really annoying. Every time my dog goes to the park, we have to pull her away from literally everywhere but the center of the path because of how much she wants to get to the feast. There are enough geese at the park that the city is trying to use the "goosinator." The goosinator, pictured at right, is basically a massive orange thing that chases geese away. I have not directly seen the park using it, but I have heard about it and read about it in several park newspapers. Personally, the massive amounts of fowl do not bother me enough to require the use of a tool such as the goosinator, but the city disagrees.
          If you could not tell, birds in general are basically my favorite animal class. That is why I am studying them. I find it interesting that a class of animals can be so diverse yet all share the same characteristics, especially as they all evolved from different places and branched off to become as biologically different as they are. Out of the birds, however, I still think geese are the best. Yes, other birds may not be able to fly, and others may be like eight feet tall, but no bird species cares less as a whole than geese, and I really respect that about them.