• slackassassin@piefed.socialEnglish
      24·
      4 days ago

      Swans are even more aggressive and territorial, they just have better PR. Last summer I watched 2 of them kill an entire hatch of goslings and run off the flock. Metal af, but also sad.

        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          4 days ago

          If you’re mad enough you can just punt them. Birds-including swans- are pretty easy to hurt.

          Can they hurt humans? Sure. Would they win a fight if we took the gloves off? No.

          (Just leave them alone, and we can all be cool- us over here and them over there.)

            • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              2 days ago

              Ostriches, emu and cossawry are all dangerous, yes.

              The thing is, we generally don’t want to kill them.

              They may have stringer bones than flying birds, but there still somewhat hollow and still very likely come out losing harder than a human would.

              • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
                1·
                2 days ago

                I don’t want to kill or hurt swans or geese or ducks either. I simply brought up ostriches cause you said birds are easy to hurt, so I gave you a counterexample. I don’t want to hurt any birds.

                • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  2 days ago

                  Same. and that’s my point.

                  if we were bastards, they wouldn’t be as dangerous as they are. Trying to stop something from hurting you when you don’t want to hurt it… is a lot harder to do.

    • NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      4 days ago

      It wouldn’t make much of a comic strip. Before the critters finished asking for a ride the Canada goose would have been in a flapping, violent rage and attempting to peck their faces off.