| The parents lead the young to water and food, and the goslings feed themselves. |
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| Following egg laying, the birds almost disappear until the time comes to escort flotillas of goslings to the water. |
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| Police are investigating Sunday's shooting when the goose and her three young goslings were used as target practice. |
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| Spatial variation in growth of Barnacle Goose goslings and Lesser Snow Goose goslings also has been related to variation in food abundance. |
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| It had been over a month since I'd been able to go to the area, so the cute fuzzy goslings and ducklings would be big. |
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| She has lots of experience with animals with two dogs, George and Tiger and a cat called Gypsy and her granny's geese and two goslings. |
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| The event runs until Saturday, April 18 and offers the chance to see ducklings, goslings and cygnets. |
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| There are no Pelicans anyway to pose a threat to the geese, ganders and goslings. |
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| An aggressive Canada goose supervised its goslings while ducks enjoyed bread offered by a child. |
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| We captured brant goslings at a single brood-rearing area used by brant from the Kokechik Bay colony. |
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| The primary predators of eggs and goslings at the study site are herring gulls, parasitic jaegers, ravens and Arctic foxes. |
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| Though goslings are very time-consuming, grown-up geese are much more low-maintenance. |
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| Indeed, two adults with four little fuzzy yellow goslings were paddling around near the observation deck. |
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| When the grey pelican scooped up the group of goslings, two of them were caught by the huge bird. |
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| We did a survey on this one big island and there are usually thousands of goslings, and this year we did not find more than 20 goslings on it. |
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| During early summer, the adults undergo their annual monthlong molt, and the goslings do not yet know how to fly and depend on food they can walk to, such as mowed grass. |
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| Families with goslings migrating south for the first time probably take longer than adults without goslings. |
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| The hatch date also allows enough time for the goslings to grow big enough to fly south before freeze-up. |
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| The first of those two indices was obtained by counting, once per day, the number of Emperor Goose broods in which all goslings could be observed. |
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| From the moment they leave the nest, goslings feed on grasses and sedges in meadows and along shorelines. |
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| Arnold was there to show off his sheep, hens, geese and little goslings. |
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| Breeding is timed so that the eggs hatch when the plants that the goslings, or young geese, eat have their highest nutritional value. |
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| They settle in the farmland areas to feed on the grass, putting on weight, especially the goslings, in preparation for the flight to Scotland and Ireland. |
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| The goslings thus have many pairs of eyes watching out for them which is reflected in a high survival rate for these guys. |
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| Perhaps the best known example of imprinting is the following-behaviour of newly hatched goslings. |
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| Successful breeders moult later in the season, remaining with their young goslings, which have not begun to fly. |
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| Diet: Herbivore, adults feed primarily on vegetable matter whereas goslings also consume small invertebrates. |
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| In the case of goslings, it is that the first big, moving object you encounter on breaking out of your egg is your mother. |
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| When Canada Geese successfully nest in a given area, they generally return to the same nesting site year after year, as do their goslings. |
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| A pair and its goslings are an almost inseparable troupe, acting in unison. |
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| The empty set is the set of the goslings the two gaggles share. |
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| There are no pelicans to pose a threat to the geese, ganders and goslings. |
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| The first line of defence is for the male to draw attention to himself in an attempt to lure the predator away from the nest or goslings. |
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| And, by demonstrating that there are general principles to animals' behaviour, it has illuminated the activities of humans. Lorenz's goslings, for example, were exhibiting a phenomenon now known as imprinting. |
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| However, accidents and experiments can intervene and a family of goslings became imprinted on Lorenz, followed him wherever he went, and became distressed when he left them behind. |
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| By this time, only about half of the goslings that hatched still survive. |
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| The other name by which it is most often known – goosegrass – indicates its popularity with geese, in particular goslings, to whom it was once fed. |
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| Antibodies against ABV were not detected in the plasma of any of the hatched goslings with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. |
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| Like goslings, people have a sensitive period during which they are predisposed to learn a particular thing. Recognising their mothers is something that only a few creatures need to do. |
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| The guineas peeped complainingly, the goslings waddled into all the puddles and came back to chill my skin. |
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| Goslings graze with their parents out of the water whereas swans teach cygnets in the water to be aquatic feeders. |
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| Goslings from High Arctic breeding sites may face more severe seasonal constraints than those breeding in subarctic or temperate areas. |
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