Goddammit, they learned how to read.
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@MaryAustinBooks need to hire a coyotegirl to do the job instead smh
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@MaryAustinBooks We have lots of Canada Geese here and I can offer two possibilities, not mutually exclusive:
○ Canada Geese aren't smart enough to read, but they are smart enough to realize that coyote hasn't moved in over two weeks.
○ Some Canada Geese aren't afraid of moving SUVs. A mere coyote? Ha!
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"Curse you, ACME!"
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@MaryAustinBooks Plot twist: the geese are fake too
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@MaryAustinBooks Besides, everyone knows you use fake coyotes for ROADRUNNER deterrent, sheesh.
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@MaryAustinBooks Plot twist: the geese are fake too
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@MaryAustinBooks geese are very smart, didn't you know? And they teach each other
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@MaryAustinBooks Shhh... If you walk around its back is safe, see?
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@MaryAustinBooks Scarecrows and other similar things have to be moved every two or three days, farmers and gamekeepers used to know this.
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@MaryAustinBooks I like how the fake coyote sign is outside the fake coyote's field of vision, so as not to exacerbate the fake coyote's crippling impostor syndrome.
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@MaryAustinBooks The geese would have been frightened away if the sign had said REAL COYOTE. Duh.
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@MaryAustinBooks We're gonna need a bigger coyote.
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@MaryAustinBooks @briankrebs At Bell Labs Holmdel, they decided to use some artificial ponds as part of the heat exchange system for the air conditioners. The geese found those heated ponds lovely, but their droppings clogged the intake filters. Management responded by deploying fake swans. Guess how well that worked?
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@MaryAustinBooks @briankrebs At Bell Labs Holmdel, they decided to use some artificial ponds as part of the heat exchange system for the air conditioners. The geese found those heated ponds lovely, but their droppings clogged the intake filters. Management responded by deploying fake swans. Guess how well that worked?
@SteveBellovin @MaryAustinBooks @briankrebs
Once lived in an apartment complex with a big pond with a fountain spray thing. Ducks loved it, but some of the residents got the idea the ducks were a health hazard. After multiple community meetings and at least two complex wide votes it was decided to remove the ducks. A firm was hired, the ducks were trapped and taken fifty miles away across the coastal mountain range and released...
You guessed it. The ducks were back before nightfall.
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@MaryAustinBooks I love how they need the sign because, while the geese aren't fooled the humans are.
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@MaryAustinBooks Canadian geese are ungovernable.
@PhoenixSerenity @MaryAustinBooks facts. we call them canada geese but they spend half the year out of here cause they could never lower themselves to such monkey business as borders
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@SteveBellovin @MaryAustinBooks @briankrebs
Once lived in an apartment complex with a big pond with a fountain spray thing. Ducks loved it, but some of the residents got the idea the ducks were a health hazard. After multiple community meetings and at least two complex wide votes it was decided to remove the ducks. A firm was hired, the ducks were trapped and taken fifty miles away across the coastal mountain range and released...
You guessed it. The ducks were back before nightfall.
@mastodonmigration @MaryAustinBooks @briankrebs That reminds me of the story about Penzias and Wilson and their discovery of the 3°K microwave background radiation of the universe. Trying to eliminate all noise sources, they discovered that the inside of the antenna had become home to some pigeons, who had decorated it with their droppings. They removed the pigeons and drove them far away—but of course, pigeons are *homing pigeons* and promptly returned to the antenna (https://www.lindau-nobel.org/pigeon-waste-cosmic-melodies-and-noise-in-scientific-communication/).
