Migrating geese alter their routes and habits according to local hunting laws
Evidence
The geese that proclaim the seasons to our farm are aware of many things, including the Wisconsin statutes. The southbound November flocks pass over us high and haughty, with scarcely a honk of recognition for their favorite sandbars and sloughs. ‘As a crow flies’ is crooked compared with their undeviating aim at the nearest big lake twenty miles to the south, where they loaf by day on broad waters and filch corn by night from the freshly cut stubbles. November geese are aware that every marsh and pond bristles from dawn till dark with hopeful guns. — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 84
Categorization
- CANDY: Geese ‘aware of the Wisconsin statutes’ — flying high over harvest-season guns but low once the spring truce holds — is a delightfully shareable observation.
- XREF: connects to: Migratory birds practiced continental unity long before human nations agreed to it — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 95; Geese use loud invitation calls to recruit passing flocks into an established marsh — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 87; Seasonal territory asserted by migrating birds overrides documented human ownership — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 134 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Success in hunting depends on matching the animal’s timing judgment
#expands(0.82) — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 206 - Seasonal territory asserted by migrating birds overrides documented human ownership
#complicates(0.72) — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 134 - Unrestricted market hunting nearly extirpated the upland plover from Wisconsin farms
#complicates(0.70) — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 137