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  • Geese embody cooperation, a value humans too often forget

    Mar 27, 2025 4:45 pm by Chicago Sun-TimesIllinois in the News
    Geese exhibit what bird experts call “sentinel” or “sentry” behavior — one bird watches while the other eats, so that if a predator comes, they both don’t have their faces to the ground. It’s looking out for one another, a skill that humans struggle to understand.Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file

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    Chicago Sun-Times (March 25) Haveyou ever watched geese eat? One goose eats, the other stands watch. Professor Michael Ward calls it 'sentinel behavior - trying to detect predators. A lot of things want to eat birds,' so they take turns.

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