{"id":933536,"date":"2016-05-24T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=0cc75d91676afe1db1bf862595cdb371"},"modified":"2026-07-16T08:03:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T07:03:01","slug":"goose-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/goose-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Goose Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was watching a Canada goose family (Branta canadensis) and was impressed by how often they did exactly the same things at the same time and struck identical poses, especially the goslings. Congruent like the two above.<\/p>\n

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I was watching a Canada goose family (Branta canadensis) and was impressed by how often they did exactly the same things at the same time and struck identical poses, especially the goslings. Congruent like the two above.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Or symmetrical like these two. Click to enlarge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Apparently they get it from their parents!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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And here’s a demonstration of the famous goose step.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I was watching a Canada goose family (Branta canadensis) and was impressed by how often they did exactly the same things at the same time and struck identical poses, especially the goslings. Congruent like the two above.                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":2196518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-rgvuUrel7J0\/VzjqXO3dIhI\/AAAAAAAAFtM\/jCWPkM9zHlUBjg_NJvKnvr35tQE1EqFDwCLcB\/s1600\/1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[1464,1463,2717],"class_list":["post-933536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-branta-canadensis","tag-canada-goose","tag-goose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}