It is pretty easy to find videos of geese standing their ground or even straight up attacking bigger animals, usually cows. Why does it work?
As far as I know, geese don’t have bright colors indicating venom, or big fangs, big talons, super lound cries. Where does this intimidation come from? Why do animals avoid them at all?
Would I, a human, be able to scare the sh*t out of a herd of cows by opening my arms and screaming at them too?
Example: [Geese scaring a few cows](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyc580u5elc)
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I’m not sure if that would work on a herd of cows, but looking big and making a lot of noise *is* the recommended way to make a black bear or a mountain lion leave you alone.
Without medicine, any injury you take is a risk of you either diying or be injured enough that you cannot Hunt anymore and you still die, but of starving.
So Animals, even big scary ones, have a Natural instinct to run from confrontation if it Is not necessary.
Some other animal exploit this instinct by showing themselves as aggressive. What they are saying is “look dude, you Will probably eat me, but I Will not go down without seriously hurting you”.
Many animals waching this will back off because it’s not worth it.
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