Geese

Geese are the most popular animals in Waterloo and probably in all Canada, and right so. When it comes to being perfect, geese regularly exceed even the highest expectations. They are masters of all types of locomotion, including, but not limited to, waddling.

Their advanced surface design, combined with a porous insulation layer and leather segments joining their toes, makes them nimble and elegant swimmers.

As if these were not enough, they are furthermore able to harness the winds and lift themselves up into the sky, allowing them to reach the most lofty of locations from which they will honk triumphantly, watching us clumsily fight our daily struggles way below their feet.

Even when they are not watching from rooftops and mountain peaks, geese are always alert, ready at all times to do what needs to be done. You walk in the park, lost in thought, when suddenly you behold the goose and you know immediately: It is too late to run.

But this time, maybe undeserved, you have won the favor of our feathered overlord, and you may pass. It is a peaceful evening in Waterloo park and the goose decided to keep it that way, for now.

The situation becomes much more spicy when a goose is not just taking a nap, but sitting on her eggs. Warnings and safety precautions are typically required to be able to pass close to a nesting goose.

When they are hatched, the young goslings immediately start to take possession of their territory, closely watched by their mothers.

Parks, ponds, and the university campus are the natural habitat of an individual goose. But once a critical number of geese, determined experimentally to be 2, accumulates, their movement range is no longer constrained in any way. Every puddle then is their pond.

Every traffic island is their park, every front yard is their campus.

You can not stop geese.