where do geese go to fall a sleep?
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In the evening at about dusk flocks of wild geese fly in and land on small lakes and ponds.  It is quite a spectacular sight.  They sleep in the marshy areas around the ponds.
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You have the question backwards. The vast majority of animals can not sleep standing up. An inability to sleep standing up is the default trait, it is the primitive condition. Therefore the real question is why was an ability to sleep while standing selected.\n\nOur earliest ancestors were cold blooded and couldn’t move at night anyway, so obviously it made no difference whether they slept lying down, standing up or hanging form their tails.\n\nOur first warm blooded ancestors were nocturnal and lived in burrows and hollow logs. In those conditions it makes no difference whether an animals sleeps standing up or lying down. \n\nOur first primate ancestors were arboreal and either slept in dreys, in hollow branches or hugging the branch of a tree. Under those conditions it would be positively dangerous to sleep standing up.\n\nOur first ape ancestors either retained the trait of sleeping hugging tree baches, or they built nests on the ground. Once again it would be positively dangerous to draw attention to yourself by sleeping standing up.\n\nOur first hominid ancestors presumably built nests on the ground. Once again, the idea of standing upright in the middle of a savanna while asleep is pure suicide.\n\nI really can’t see why you believe it was ever beneficial in our evolutionary history to sleep standing upright. What possible advantage could it give to draw attention to a helpless sleeping animal by having it stand up?\n\n\n>>>>In a prehistoric world would we not have been more at a disadvantage for sleeping while down..\n\nCan you explain how we could possibly be at any disadvantage for sleeping in a position that minimises our visibility to predators?\n\n>>>>or sleeping for that matter.\n\nWell if you are asking why animals sleep at all that is an entirely different question with completely different (and less certain) answers.\n\nIf we accept that animals do need to sleep then I can't understand why you think standing out against the background would be beneficial.
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Male geese.\nGeese typically mate for life (though thats not to say, they don't have multiple partners now and then). During breeding season, the male goose is very territorial of his females. This can especially be demonstrated with Canadian geese! Scary stuff. :)\n\nA male goose will charge at threats, with his wings spread out and his head lowered. After the attacker has been scared off...he'll return to his female and they'll do a little ritual where the male boasts about himself, and the female seems to congratulate him. Its thought that they reaffirm their bond to eachother through displays like this.\n\nA male goose also protects his young. Both mother and father help raise the goslings....while in ducks, the mother does all the work.
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"Down" are GOOSE FEATHERS.. you know the stuff you have in your cozy comforters... I liked the joke. He he. Works for meeeee
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cause all chickens do is duck there heads down\n    duh
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well here in NH USA our black bears do hibernate.. they start to wake up in the late spring ... but the warm weather here has brought a few out \n\nthe old timers have heard them  so i would say yes for here any how
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The geese rotate who is at front in the formation. The lead bird is going to tire the fastest so they all share that position.  Geese do not necessarily have one lead bird that they all follow. Each indivdual goose knows they way to their hibernation area so when it is their turn to lead they do not need any other goose to tell them how to get there.
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I am unsure if it sleeps.\nHowever, its lifespan is not long so it probably does not need sleep and yawn.
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Wild Turkeys are mostly like chickens short burst of flight they spend most of their time on the ground.  Wild Turkey can take flight up to 100 feet to get up in a tree for the night then glide down in the morning  now as migration from say Michigan to Brazil is not what turkeys flight is. and By the way,  I am a hunter as well
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They do hibernate by settling into the mud at the bottom of the pond, river, etc., and falling into a deep sleep.
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When human and animal is lying down, all muscles are relaxed, so brain is relaxed too, and sleep is more comfortable, but some mamalians, for example horse can sleep standing, because it's body is adapted.
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Geese, loons, elk, moose, caribu, wolves, wood buffalo, arctic foxes... cold weather animals.  Keep in mind you just asked about half a continent.
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Both birds belong to the family Anatidae, but have distinct characteristics.\n\nThe goose (male--gander) is a medium to large bird and makes a honking call. ("True geese" belong to the subfamily Anserinae.) Non-domesticated geese are very migratory, flying from far north to far south. Geese eat a vegetarian diet.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goose\nhttp://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry?id=19498\n\nThe duck (male--drake) is smaller than the goose and the female often has a call more similar to "quack". (Contrary to popular belief, it does echo.) Ducks belong to several different subfamilies. Almost all domesticated ducks (excluding some in Central America) are descended from the Mallard, so they have very similar forms. Some duck species don't migrate, and some moult before migration, temporarily rendering them flightless. Many ducks eat fish, amphibians, and insects.\n\nLooks like biggest difference is if they honk or quack.
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Depends on the bird. Some settle down for the night alone, or on a nest. I assume you're talking about big flocks of birds like blackbirds and crows. Some of them look for a spot to roost together because of safety in numbers. They may fly all over at dusk to round up everybody and then fly to whereever they decide is a safe spot to spend the night.
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Your parents told you this one, right?  The joke is that "down" which is used in bedding, coats, etc.. (like a "down comforter") comes from goose feathers,  as opposed to stepping down (directional) off an elephant.
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They huddle under the leaves of shrubs, vines, and trees. Grassland birds nest within thick grasses. Many places, though, provide no shelter. Consequently, birds have evolved rain-shedding feathers. \n\nThey stay relatively warm and dry under their feathers. Still birds get wet. ...most birds don't seem to mind. If they can't find a place to hide, they'll simply stand in the rain. After the rain--and during--they fluff up their feathers to warm up and help themselves dry off."\n\nAfter a dry spell, even with shrubs and trees galore, they sit sometimes out in the rain and take showers.
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Hedgehogs are nocturnal.  Here is a website with alot of information about them.\n\nhttp://www.angelfire.com/punk2/walktheplank/hedgehogs.html