Goose
The geese are a group of birds belonging to the subfamily of the Ansérinés and the family of the Anatidés. They are rather large water birds, related with the Canard S (smaller) and with the swan S (larger). One qualifies readily the Bernache S and the Céréopse S, of geese. One distinguishes also wild gooses and domestic geese.
The majority of the species of Europe, Asia and North America are migrating in a wild state. All the geese are exclusively vegetarians: some species can harm to the farmers by grazing their fields.
The geese lay less eggs than ducks, but the two parents protect the Nid and the small ones, ensuring a higher average rate of survival of small ( let us oisons ). The male goose is called the gander .
The geese were domesticated during centuries. The Greylag goose ( Anser anser ) is at the origin of the European domestic races, but in Asia the Oie cygnoïde ( Anser cygnoides ) has a history quite as long.
a process called the Gavage makes it possible to obtain the Foie gras.
Goose species
Kind Anser- Greylag goose, Anser anser
- merry Oie A. will albifrons
- dwarf Oie A. erythropus
- Oie of the harvests A. fabalis
- Oie with short nozzle A. brachyrhynchus
- Oie with barred head A. indicus
- Oie cygnoïde, A. cygnoides (known as also “Oie of Guinea”)
Kind Anser or Chen (depend on the authority)
- Snow goose Anser caerulescens or Chen caerulescens
- Goose of Ross, A. rossii or C. rossii
- Goose emperor, A. canagicus or C. canagica
Kind Branta , the Barnacle S
- Barnacle cravant Branta bernicla
- Barnacle goose B. leucopsis
- Barnacle of Hutchins B. hutchinsii
- Barnacle of Canada B. canadensis (known as also “Bustard”)
- Barnacle with russet-red neck B. ruficollis
- Barnacle tit or Barnacle of Hawaii, B. sandvicensis
- Céréopse ashy, Cereopsis novaehollandiae
Geese in the legends and the fiction
The fables of Ésope include the history of a farmer having a goose laying of gold eggs; it decides to kill her in order to obtain all gold eggs at the same time, but thus loses the source of its richness.
Tite-Live tells the episode of the geese crowned of a temple of Junon which saved Rome by their cries towards -390, when the Gaulois attacked the Capitole the night.
The Jeu of the goose is a Jeu very appreciated children. The Oies of Meïdoum are one of the oldest representation of geese.
External bond
- the Passion of the Geese
- '' the rehabilitated Goose '' (1865) by CH. Bataillard.
See too
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