Post #2820750
2026-05-08 18:00 UTC
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@solar_chase@mastodon.green 2026-05-09 06:42
Ganders are a bit like very early chess computers, which were programmed to be better more subtle players by giving them interim goals rather than "go on a king hunt". So you would sometimes get a computer in a dominating position deciding that "center control" was more important than checkmate, and proceeding to make two queens circle the center four squares. Gander breeding success in the wild is about forming social alliances, protecting goslings, supporting nest-building behaviour.
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@maltimore@social.tchncs.de 2026-05-08 18:12
@solar_chase@mastodon.green i didn't see that this post was a continuation of your earlier post and thought that you're referring to the other people on the fediverse and was nodding in agreement
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@SK53@en.osm.town 2026-05-08 18:31
@solar_chase@mastodon.green Geese on my local university campus have formed a strange menage à trois: two Canada Geese and a lone Greylag. They've had goslings this year & last, but no obvious Greylag component