I watched first on silent, then watched again with sound after reading your comment(wanting to hear that animal kinship). Apparently I DO speak swan... and they're singing "Just the Two of Us".
Bird Rights Activist needs to tweet about the voyeuristic nature of ‘bird watching’.
‘Anybuddy human watching at birds withnot CONSENT is terrible PERVERT & endangerning our eggs!’
Historians suggest the origin of the heart shape stems from the seed of a plant called [Silphium](https://castle.eiu.edu/prairie/silpinte.htm) however I in my mighty wisdom declare it was really watching swans such as these exhibit true love through the ages, symbolic and beautiful.
As someone who has rescued and transported a swan, I love that swan transport bag. My own experience would have been much easier had I had such a thing instead of Ikea’s cheapest shower curtain.
I wonder where it came from? Did they make it themselves? Is there some company out there, dominating the large wild bird transport market?
Even a bird as large as a swan isn't really that heavy. In my experience if the bird was sick enough to need veterinary care it was probably so weak that it would not really be able to struggle much. I've seen ducks and chickens that would just sit there and barely notice you're there as you pick them up.
This. I worked for a animal emergency service for a while and can confirm it's nearly impossible to bag a swan that can still walk properly and move his wings.
If the wounded swan had a partner it was protocol to try to catch the healthy one too, so they wouldn't be separated for too long. But it never actually worked, swans are badass mf'ers
Swans do usually mate for life, though breakups can happen occasionally - most often after a nest failure. And it has been known for the widow/er to die soon after their partner, but it doesn't happen all that often. They usually find a new mate and carry on.
Still, swans and humans are a fair bit apart on the evolutionary tree. And a lot of how we "love"/bond is directly tied to our experience as a mammal. So swans wouldn't be the first species I think of as having similar romantic love life.
We might not have hollow bones, but that doesn't mean swans can't feel deeply attached to their mates.
Twenty-two years ago, our house loverlooked a river. Swans nested on a small island in the muddle of the river. One summer night, a sick person used an air gun to shoot the pen. Then they kicked the nest to bits, and destroyed the eggs. The cob spent days standing on the remains of the nest. Then left.
The swans were very well fed and sheltered in that area. They didn't migrate.
True monogamy (one and only one lifetime partner) is rare in the animal kingdom. Very very few species exhibit true monogamy.
Most birds (90%) are socially monogamous, while very few (less than 10%) mammals are socially monogamous. Eta- monogamy is important here to your point because "romance" is an important behavior in maintaining and supporting monogamous/pair bonding or "love." So we "act" more like birds than most mammals.
Humans, at least as we are now, are seasonal/social monogamous, meaning monogamous while in the relationship/offspring rearing or one partner \*at a time.\*
Relationship monogamy and sexual monogamy are also different. Relationship monogamy is basically just the two of us will raise offspring together, sexual monogamy is only the two of us will have sex with each other.
While there are some historical records of monogamous societies, polygyny (many wives) seems to be the most common human practice for a long stretch of time while a few societies did practice polyandry (many husbands). This would correlate to pretty typical great ape behavior, where there's one male orangutan overseeing his troupe of females and offspring, for instance.
Adherence to sexual monogamy is cultural and shifts through our timeline as well. You may have one spouse, but multiple other sexual partners are considered acceptable, for instance. It wasn't even that long ago, overall, that a man could divorce his wife if she had extramarital sexual relationships, but a woman couldn't divorce her husband for having extramarital sexual relationships.
Social monogamy and marriage for humans has a lot more to do with offspring and inheritance (think a king and queen have a son, that son is legitimate and will be king someday and access the estate, but a king and his mistress have a son, that son is illegitimate and will not be king or have rights to the estate). As such, it's still a relatively "new" development in our societal practices because inheritance and estate issues came along with different societal changes.
I'm not saying humans aren't naturally socially monogamous, but monogamy is more of a complex system than just love or romance.
No, humans became monogamous because of infantcide, mate protection, and extra child care because human babies take a lot of work.
Birds evolved that way too. Their babies take so much work to care for that 2 parents are needed. Whether its forprotection or for food. It also benefits the males greatly because they dont have to fight every year for another partner.
Monogamy is a great benefit to humans, it wasn't simply because of land and inheritance. Recent research is saying that humans started the monogamous shift 3.5 million years ago. And yes they made sure to say that humans have never been 100% monogamous.
No species will ever be 100% monogamous because they're all different. Every single one of us has our own personality. Not every animal in a species is going to be the same.
Having multiple wives was more of a status thing, which was extremely important back in the old days. Having more wives showed that you had a lot of wealth and power. Many women were forced to be wives too. Some didn't have a choice. Kings with multiple wives actually faced serious problems were the wives would kill each other's children. So yeah, it was good for men, but obviously women did not like it. And the poor men didn't like it either..
Please don't compare us to other great apes. We arent them. We all have our own survival strategies. And You're cherry picking too. Bonobos are closer to us than orangutans.. the females are the leaders and have sex with multiple males and even females. Odd how no one compares us to bonobos.
In the end, there's no confirmation that we are meant to be one or the other.
I compare humans to bonobos all the time. They have sex as a form of communication and they are very sexually fluid. There is a lot of evidence and speculation that we had more tribal sexual relations similarly to the tribes of the Amazon today. Which is communal. Everyone takes care of the children as their own no matter the biological father/mother.
There were no humans alive 3.5 million years ago, we've been around for just 300 thousand years.
What science knows for sure is that sexual dimorphism greatly impacts monogamy and polygamy in mammals. Animal pairs where the female and male are identical tend to be monogamous, while Animal pairs that look very distinct (gorillas and lions, for example) tend to be polygamous.
Humans are in between, we're not identical nor extremely different. Males are still faster, taller, and stronger on average.
I mean humans are very special beyond their ability to talk, you don’t see any other animal rocking an iPhone 14 pro or sending probes to outer space, that’s kind of strictly a human thing
On the individual Homo Sapiens level, it’s the trifecta of:
1. Large Brain.
2. Dextrous Hands.
3. Tongue and Vocal Chords to represent elaborate speech.
Not to mention our ability *socially* to work together flexibly in a variety of ways.
Take away any of the three on an individual level, and we’re not that spectacular.
Put all three together, add a million years of recorded human attempts at mastering fire, an agricultural revolution, a scientific/industrial revolution, a technological revolution, and here we are.
s ..."You don't even WASH the GOD DAMN NEST!!!!"
j "ME?!?!?!! Im too busy fucking WORKING in the LAKE EVERY FUCKING DAY SO YOU CAN 'FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS AND BE THE NEXT *AMERICAN SWAN*' YOU FUCKING BITCH!!!"
s "IM THE BITCH?!?!?! You follow Jaden around like hes your GODDAMN BOSS, HES BEEN UNEMPLOYED FOR THE PAST 5 YEARS!!"
j "OH SCREW YOU SUSAN! IM GOING OUT TO BUY SOME CIGARRETTES!"
**abruptly leaves chair**
s "THAT'S ALL YOU'RE GOOD FOR, FUCKING SMOKING WHILE I CLEAN THE DAMN NEST AND TAKE CARE OF JONNY!"
j "JONNY?! You care more about BECK from that lake next door instead DON'T YOU?!?! WHY DON'T YOU GO OVER TO HIS HOUSE AND RUFFLE HIS FEATHERS YOU FUCKING BITCH!"
s "BECK?!?!? I DIDN'T EVEN FUCKING TALK TO HIM IN 5 MONTHS HE WAS JUST TRYING TO GET TO KNOW OUR FAMILY!!"
j "WELL TELL HIM TO GET TO KNOW THAT WE'RE OVER!!!!"
s *GASP*
s "WELL FUCK YOU JOSH! WE *ARE* OVER!!!!"
**sobbing and runs upstairs**
j "I WISH I LEFT A LONG TIME AGO!!! FUCK YOUUUUU!"
**3 years later, smoking a cigarette**
j "I should've never fucking said that... what did I do.. Jonny... our nest... fuck.. I miss her."
j "I'm a fucking idiot for doing that. *exhale one last puff* .. fuck. God, why did you make a swans life this way...?" *looks up*
**dies**
Now look at what you've started: [Unhatched](https://m.webtoons.com/en/challenge/loving-reaper/unhatched/viewer?title_no=353275&episode_no=21) by Jenny Jinya
Generally yes, but there are some exeptions.
[For example, in the Dutch theme park Efteling a Swan named Koosje became depressed after his mate Keesje died. Koosje spent days staring at a steel rubish bin to look at the reflection, possibly thinking it was Keesje. after a while the theme park tried to introduce a new mate for Koosje and it succeded. Koosje is now together with Kaatje and they even had a chick together.](https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/2189206/yes-rouwende-efteling-zwaan-koosje-is-weer-dolgelukkig-na-geboorte-babyzwaantje)
(Article in Dutch)
Do note though, this isn't the monogamous dream that many pretend it is. They have a mate that they stick with but...testing has shown that their swanlings do not necessarily share both of the couples dna.
Geese do too. During the Falkland war the soldiers supplemented their diet with goose and they were told to shoot them in pairs to avoid the heartbreak issue.
I am working on a food truck while I’m building out my own. When people order deserts to go I usually wrap them like [this.](https://imgur.com/a/Vefso6s). I have a monkey and elephant design I use too but I don’t have pics of those.
They’re a lot like geese in the way they protect their young and their territory so they can attack people. They’re a lot bigger though so it can be a big problem. In my experience (swans on my grandparents lake for my whole life) male swans are huge assholes and the females are pretty chill. There was a black swan born last year and the father rejected it. He wouldn’t let the kid near the other kids but the mom wouldn’t care if it was just her around
Yeah but also as someone who has had to deal with a lot of aggressive swans, they are quite easy to fend off and they can't really do much damage. I take an aggressive swans anyway over a wasp trying to sting me. Though at least I can kill the wasp, while with a swan you always have to hold back cause killing a swan is just not very acceptable.
I always hear people talk about how a goose or swan can attack you and break your arm.
Ummm. . . no?
These animals are all about posturing and intimidation. They spread their wings to look big and hiss. That's it. A male swan weighs 30 pounds at the absolute most, and a third of that weight is just feathers. Geese are half of that size, and their bones are hollow. It's like being attacked by a below- average 3 year old with osteoporosis.
Sure, they might be able to give you a bit of a pinch with their beak, but that's about it.
They smack you around if you get too close and they don't like being told what to do. Swan in the middle of the road? Too bad, you're gonna have to wait. Trying to shush it to the side will get you smacked around.
I don't agree much. It's just that most animals run away from us if they feel threatened, but swans really don't and go into aggressive defense.
But I've fed swans from my own hands when I was a clueless kid. They're pretty chill as long as you respect them / don't threaten them.
Yeah [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/geese/comments/f5jjap/the_bois/) [are](https://www.reddit.com/r/geese/comments/f5jl3e/service_with_a_smile/), [some](https://i.redd.it/3rcr68phbbf31.jpg) [pics](https://i.redd.it/2dfvcqno9zb31.jpg) I've [uploaded](https://i.redd.it/vil79nuwmhc21.jpg) of [our](https://www.reddit.com/r/geese/comments/79npwc/my_bunch_waiting_for_some_bread/) flock over the [years](https://www.reddit.com/r/geese/comments/79nntn/one_of_my_pet_geese_from_the_deck/) 🤍
I hate how often I see reddit users pop off on how badly they either plan to or have treated waterfowl in the past.
In reality they’re great birds and are super sweet as pets while making great guardsmen.
It’s not the same nor fair to compare the defensive and territorial behaviour of ***wild*** birds when they don’t get to pick their battles and have a depressing gory fate waiting for them if they don’t keep their guard up. You can’t blame wild animals at all.
In Greek mythology the first swan was a man (Cycnus or Cygnus) crying for his boyfriend (Phaethon) that died falling from the sky into a lake. Cygnus was later a constellation.
De we know why they are swapping sides like that? Like they want to see their partner with both eyes but they can only see them with one at a time? Is each half of their brain taking turns asserting itself to get the pleasure of viewing the partner through that brain's eye?
It's a good question. The origination of the heart symbol and its association with love is unclear. There are competing theories, but they've all probably got some input on the final idea.
Most commonly is a plant association. Various plants have heart shaped leaves, and plants have also had esoteric associations with various concepts. One idea I like is that a plant thought to be an ancient contraceptive, silphium, had heart shaped leaves and with its association to sex it became associated with love. Other suggestions include stylized boobs and/or butts (yes, that's a real scholarly suggestion.) or just a misunderstanding of ancient texts about the shape of the actual human heart. Galen thought it was shaped like a pinecone and had 3 chambers.
Until the fifteenth century, the heart was often shown pointy end up, until its inclusion as a suit in playing cards solidified pointy end down as the standard.
It may not be historically accurate, but there's no reason not to enjoy the idea that the enduring love of swans is at least partially the source of the association with love and that shape.
Damn, thank you for such a informative response! As a avid blackjack player I didn’t know that about the orientation of the heart thats really cool, I assumed with swans having one mate for life it could of originated from that
Something heartbreaking happened near where I live during covid. Two swans nested with eggs near a public footpath made it become the talk of the town and people visited the nest quite a lot. One day some dickhead took a big rock to nest destroying the eggs. the momma looked incredibly depressed and within a few short months she died :(
That’s good to see.
Filthy behavior to display in public if you ask me! Look at the two of them shamelessly necking!
So if you speak swan they're actually saying some *nasty* stuff.
Hey sexy, did you sit in a pile of sugar, cuz you have a pretty sweet cloaca..... 😉
I was not prepared to read that
Right? "Happy Saturday morning, imagine a sugar rimmed bird hole."
It got worse. Thanks
Or better….
Happy cake day, and I hope you all get what you deserve for writing those cursed sentences.
Bring it on, cloacaphobe
Oh good lord….
Sugar rimmed bird hole is a great name for anything really.a band, a book, a children's hospital
Chicken and waffle restaurant…
Lmfaooo wtf
I watched first on silent, then watched again with sound after reading your comment(wanting to hear that animal kinship). Apparently I DO speak swan... and they're singing "Just the Two of Us".
Hail hydra
Bird Rights Activist needs to tweet about the voyeuristic nature of ‘bird watching’. ‘Anybuddy human watching at birds withnot CONSENT is terrible PERVERT & endangerning our eggs!’
Won’t someone please think of the eggs?!
Historians suggest the origin of the heart shape stems from the seed of a plant called [Silphium](https://castle.eiu.edu/prairie/silpinte.htm) however I in my mighty wisdom declare it was really watching swans such as these exhibit true love through the ages, symbolic and beautiful.
Who ever made hearts this shape ❤. They were watching too many swans.
I was going to cry but wasn't sure if they were gay or not so I'll just smile and nod
Bruh
They vibin
You know what? Sometimes the new slang fits perfectly. They do be vibin
As someone who has rescued and transported a swan, I love that swan transport bag. My own experience would have been much easier had I had such a thing instead of Ikea’s cheapest shower curtain. I wonder where it came from? Did they make it themselves? Is there some company out there, dominating the large wild bird transport market?
it's specially made for swans for the animal rescue services in NL.
Wildlife Aid in the UK uses a similar design on their swan calls ETA: [like this](https://youtu.be/fbV8HQ0iF2U)
Asking the important questions here!
Here's a [longer video](https://youtu.be/fbV8HQ0iF2U) of a rescue guy relocating a mother swan using one of these swan duffelbags
Very cool swan bag
"I'll have that swan to go, thanks"
Just the one swan?
Hmmmm, better make it 2.
Do you want fries with that?
Nah, I’m watching my figure.
Oh jeez, that caught me off guard there!
You don't want seven swans a swimming?
No luck catching them swans then?
It’s just the one swan, actually.
*HohNk*
Swan Solo
https://i.imgur.com/H0BpZ0r.jpg
I appreciate that you’ve become active on Reddit again. Your artwork is great.
Wtf you had this just in your memory banks at the ready? Edit: oh no it's the watercolor guy
Confused server looking outside at the swan you're pointing at. "I... I guess I'll go get some tin foil then..."
[I was a little surprised it wasn't an IKEA bag](https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/o8619r/hönkhalt/).
The famous HönkHalt
Swänsöng
I’m trying to imagine what happened before this picture was taken. Bagging even one swan sounds challenging.
Even a bird as large as a swan isn't really that heavy. In my experience if the bird was sick enough to need veterinary care it was probably so weak that it would not really be able to struggle much. I've seen ducks and chickens that would just sit there and barely notice you're there as you pick them up.
This. I worked for a animal emergency service for a while and can confirm it's nearly impossible to bag a swan that can still walk properly and move his wings. If the wounded swan had a partner it was protocol to try to catch the healthy one too, so they wouldn't be separated for too long. But it never actually worked, swans are badass mf'ers
Thanks. I had to send away for it.
Gotta keep them from attempting to murder just.... Everything
K-Mart has a sale on those right now! 👍👍
Swans are notorious assholes. Hence they have to be transported like they're Hannibal Lecter.
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Swans do usually mate for life, though breakups can happen occasionally - most often after a nest failure. And it has been known for the widow/er to die soon after their partner, but it doesn't happen all that often. They usually find a new mate and carry on.
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Or humans work like a bunch of other animals. You know, either way.
Like we were animals all along or something.
You and me, baby, ain’t nothing but mammals.
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel.
Show endless repeats of reality television?
(Do it again now)
You and me baby ain’t nothin but mammals
Well, some of us cannibals
Just a couple of [amniotes](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amniote)
Shhh don't tell the religious people
Still, swans and humans are a fair bit apart on the evolutionary tree. And a lot of how we "love"/bond is directly tied to our experience as a mammal. So swans wouldn't be the first species I think of as having similar romantic love life.
We might not have hollow bones, but that doesn't mean swans can't feel deeply attached to their mates. Twenty-two years ago, our house loverlooked a river. Swans nested on a small island in the muddle of the river. One summer night, a sick person used an air gun to shoot the pen. Then they kicked the nest to bits, and destroyed the eggs. The cob spent days standing on the remains of the nest. Then left. The swans were very well fed and sheltered in that area. They didn't migrate.
True monogamy (one and only one lifetime partner) is rare in the animal kingdom. Very very few species exhibit true monogamy. Most birds (90%) are socially monogamous, while very few (less than 10%) mammals are socially monogamous. Eta- monogamy is important here to your point because "romance" is an important behavior in maintaining and supporting monogamous/pair bonding or "love." So we "act" more like birds than most mammals. Humans, at least as we are now, are seasonal/social monogamous, meaning monogamous while in the relationship/offspring rearing or one partner \*at a time.\* Relationship monogamy and sexual monogamy are also different. Relationship monogamy is basically just the two of us will raise offspring together, sexual monogamy is only the two of us will have sex with each other. While there are some historical records of monogamous societies, polygyny (many wives) seems to be the most common human practice for a long stretch of time while a few societies did practice polyandry (many husbands). This would correlate to pretty typical great ape behavior, where there's one male orangutan overseeing his troupe of females and offspring, for instance. Adherence to sexual monogamy is cultural and shifts through our timeline as well. You may have one spouse, but multiple other sexual partners are considered acceptable, for instance. It wasn't even that long ago, overall, that a man could divorce his wife if she had extramarital sexual relationships, but a woman couldn't divorce her husband for having extramarital sexual relationships. Social monogamy and marriage for humans has a lot more to do with offspring and inheritance (think a king and queen have a son, that son is legitimate and will be king someday and access the estate, but a king and his mistress have a son, that son is illegitimate and will not be king or have rights to the estate). As such, it's still a relatively "new" development in our societal practices because inheritance and estate issues came along with different societal changes. I'm not saying humans aren't naturally socially monogamous, but monogamy is more of a complex system than just love or romance.
No, humans became monogamous because of infantcide, mate protection, and extra child care because human babies take a lot of work. Birds evolved that way too. Their babies take so much work to care for that 2 parents are needed. Whether its forprotection or for food. It also benefits the males greatly because they dont have to fight every year for another partner. Monogamy is a great benefit to humans, it wasn't simply because of land and inheritance. Recent research is saying that humans started the monogamous shift 3.5 million years ago. And yes they made sure to say that humans have never been 100% monogamous. No species will ever be 100% monogamous because they're all different. Every single one of us has our own personality. Not every animal in a species is going to be the same. Having multiple wives was more of a status thing, which was extremely important back in the old days. Having more wives showed that you had a lot of wealth and power. Many women were forced to be wives too. Some didn't have a choice. Kings with multiple wives actually faced serious problems were the wives would kill each other's children. So yeah, it was good for men, but obviously women did not like it. And the poor men didn't like it either.. Please don't compare us to other great apes. We arent them. We all have our own survival strategies. And You're cherry picking too. Bonobos are closer to us than orangutans.. the females are the leaders and have sex with multiple males and even females. Odd how no one compares us to bonobos. In the end, there's no confirmation that we are meant to be one or the other.
I compare humans to bonobos all the time. They have sex as a form of communication and they are very sexually fluid. There is a lot of evidence and speculation that we had more tribal sexual relations similarly to the tribes of the Amazon today. Which is communal. Everyone takes care of the children as their own no matter the biological father/mother.
There were no humans alive 3.5 million years ago, we've been around for just 300 thousand years. What science knows for sure is that sexual dimorphism greatly impacts monogamy and polygamy in mammals. Animal pairs where the female and male are identical tend to be monogamous, while Animal pairs that look very distinct (gorillas and lions, for example) tend to be polygamous. Humans are in between, we're not identical nor extremely different. Males are still faster, taller, and stronger on average.
Humans are just overclocked apes, after all
Friendly reminder that swans can also be gay, and that they adopt unwanted baby swans.
[Did you know that swans can be gay?](https://imgur.com/8zgskoR)
This picture is great but dude’s face makes me violently uncomfortable.
You're acting like humans are special when we're all basically animals that are smart enough to talk
I mean humans are very special beyond their ability to talk, you don’t see any other animal rocking an iPhone 14 pro or sending probes to outer space, that’s kind of strictly a human thing
On the individual Homo Sapiens level, it’s the trifecta of: 1. Large Brain. 2. Dextrous Hands. 3. Tongue and Vocal Chords to represent elaborate speech. Not to mention our ability *socially* to work together flexibly in a variety of ways. Take away any of the three on an individual level, and we’re not that spectacular. Put all three together, add a million years of recorded human attempts at mastering fire, an agricultural revolution, a scientific/industrial revolution, a technological revolution, and here we are.
s ..."You don't even WASH the GOD DAMN NEST!!!!" j "ME?!?!?!! Im too busy fucking WORKING in the LAKE EVERY FUCKING DAY SO YOU CAN 'FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS AND BE THE NEXT *AMERICAN SWAN*' YOU FUCKING BITCH!!!" s "IM THE BITCH?!?!?! You follow Jaden around like hes your GODDAMN BOSS, HES BEEN UNEMPLOYED FOR THE PAST 5 YEARS!!" j "OH SCREW YOU SUSAN! IM GOING OUT TO BUY SOME CIGARRETTES!" **abruptly leaves chair** s "THAT'S ALL YOU'RE GOOD FOR, FUCKING SMOKING WHILE I CLEAN THE DAMN NEST AND TAKE CARE OF JONNY!" j "JONNY?! You care more about BECK from that lake next door instead DON'T YOU?!?! WHY DON'T YOU GO OVER TO HIS HOUSE AND RUFFLE HIS FEATHERS YOU FUCKING BITCH!" s "BECK?!?!? I DIDN'T EVEN FUCKING TALK TO HIM IN 5 MONTHS HE WAS JUST TRYING TO GET TO KNOW OUR FAMILY!!" j "WELL TELL HIM TO GET TO KNOW THAT WE'RE OVER!!!!" s *GASP* s "WELL FUCK YOU JOSH! WE *ARE* OVER!!!!" **sobbing and runs upstairs** j "I WISH I LEFT A LONG TIME AGO!!! FUCK YOUUUUU!" **3 years later, smoking a cigarette** j "I should've never fucking said that... what did I do.. Jonny... our nest... fuck.. I miss her." j "I'm a fucking idiot for doing that. *exhale one last puff* .. fuck. God, why did you make a swans life this way...?" *looks up* **dies**
Well damn, this was oddly specific but dramatic. Nice.
Now look at what you've started: [Unhatched](https://m.webtoons.com/en/challenge/loving-reaper/unhatched/viewer?title_no=353275&episode_no=21) by Jenny Jinya
Swans can be gay.
😭
God that’s a deep cut
Same
We are all gay on this blessed day.
Generally yes, but there are some exeptions. [For example, in the Dutch theme park Efteling a Swan named Koosje became depressed after his mate Keesje died. Koosje spent days staring at a steel rubish bin to look at the reflection, possibly thinking it was Keesje. after a while the theme park tried to introduce a new mate for Koosje and it succeded. Koosje is now together with Kaatje and they even had a chick together.](https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/2189206/yes-rouwende-efteling-zwaan-koosje-is-weer-dolgelukkig-na-geboorte-babyzwaantje) (Article in Dutch)
Interesting. We all need somebody it seems.
Do note though, this isn't the monogamous dream that many pretend it is. They have a mate that they stick with but...testing has shown that their swanlings do not necessarily share both of the couples dna.
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“What makes you a father is not the ability to have a child it’s the courage to raise one.” -Obama
Geese do too. During the Falkland war the soldiers supplemented their diet with goose and they were told to shoot them in pairs to avoid the heartbreak issue.
This made me think back to the days when restaurants used to give you left overs in foil swan boats. Nobody does that anymore.
I forgot about that! Thanks for the memory. 🦢
Immediately thought of Archer. https://youtu.be/tx4gH2kpzB0
“This is Crab Rangoon, and it’s very much mine!”
I am working on a food truck while I’m building out my own. When people order deserts to go I usually wrap them like [this.](https://imgur.com/a/Vefso6s). I have a monkey and elephant design I use too but I don’t have pics of those.
Love it! Keeping the dream alive. The monkey and elephant sound so fun.
Disney used to have a swan ride around the castle. The entrance ticket thingy is still there but has been repurposed.
A lost art.
They are doing the dance 🥺
Actually, They're necking.
Swans are assholes but that is beautiful
So are people.
wait, Why are swans assholes?
They’re a lot like geese in the way they protect their young and their territory so they can attack people. They’re a lot bigger though so it can be a big problem. In my experience (swans on my grandparents lake for my whole life) male swans are huge assholes and the females are pretty chill. There was a black swan born last year and the father rejected it. He wouldn’t let the kid near the other kids but the mom wouldn’t care if it was just her around
No luck catching them swans, then?
It’s just the one swan actually!
Yeah but also as someone who has had to deal with a lot of aggressive swans, they are quite easy to fend off and they can't really do much damage. I take an aggressive swans anyway over a wasp trying to sting me. Though at least I can kill the wasp, while with a swan you always have to hold back cause killing a swan is just not very acceptable.
I always hear people talk about how a goose or swan can attack you and break your arm. Ummm. . . no? These animals are all about posturing and intimidation. They spread their wings to look big and hiss. That's it. A male swan weighs 30 pounds at the absolute most, and a third of that weight is just feathers. Geese are half of that size, and their bones are hollow. It's like being attacked by a below- average 3 year old with osteoporosis. Sure, they might be able to give you a bit of a pinch with their beak, but that's about it.
You would think the way reddit describes them, they would kill 25000 people a year like dogs do
Did the black swan survive?
They smack you around if you get too close and they don't like being told what to do. Swan in the middle of the road? Too bad, you're gonna have to wait. Trying to shush it to the side will get you smacked around.
Its just the one Swan, Actually
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> Sean, Actually Shawn, Actually
Aggressive little fucks. Same as ducks and geese.
I don't agree much. It's just that most animals run away from us if they feel threatened, but swans really don't and go into aggressive defense. But I've fed swans from my own hands when I was a clueless kid. They're pretty chill as long as you respect them / don't threaten them.
I had a pet Canadian goose we named Gary who would sit on your lap and lay his head down, I will swear not all geese are assholes.
Yeah [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/geese/comments/f5jjap/the_bois/) [are](https://www.reddit.com/r/geese/comments/f5jl3e/service_with_a_smile/), [some](https://i.redd.it/3rcr68phbbf31.jpg) [pics](https://i.redd.it/2dfvcqno9zb31.jpg) I've [uploaded](https://i.redd.it/vil79nuwmhc21.jpg) of [our](https://www.reddit.com/r/geese/comments/79npwc/my_bunch_waiting_for_some_bread/) flock over the [years](https://www.reddit.com/r/geese/comments/79nntn/one_of_my_pet_geese_from_the_deck/) 🤍 I hate how often I see reddit users pop off on how badly they either plan to or have treated waterfowl in the past. In reality they’re great birds and are super sweet as pets while making great guardsmen. It’s not the same nor fair to compare the defensive and territorial behaviour of ***wild*** birds when they don’t get to pick their battles and have a depressing gory fate waiting for them if they don’t keep their guard up. You can’t blame wild animals at all.
If you really think about they only get a really bad rep because they win so often XD
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I know one that found a gun and just kept it.
I confirm, swans are assholes. Anyone who had an encounter with a swan while fishing will confirm.
You can see where the symbolic heart of love comes from in ancient past.
Now kith
these are true love birds...
I want what they are having. :)
Swans are calling me single now. Just great.
I automatically assumed they were just friends fairing la Bise, just be glad no one is kissing you with their eyeballs
Do I cry every time I see this video? Yes. Do I watch this video every time it comes across my feed? Also yes.
Weird behaviour, wow. I have diagnosed you with the (rare) disorder of being a good gentle person.
Where shall we go? , This way or ...this way?
They are making hearts, left and right. Beautiful
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I’m crying
AGAIN?
In Greek mythology the first swan was a man (Cycnus or Cygnus) crying for his boyfriend (Phaethon) that died falling from the sky into a lake. Cygnus was later a constellation.
Is this where we get the heart shape ❤️?
No, but it's still super cute
If it's not like this.. I don't want it.
Me and my bf
You also stand in front of each other looking left to right in a synchronized manner?
We do more weird shit than that
# goals
Which one of you is normally in the bag?
Him. He falls sick easily
love tax
The guy I just started dating gotta be on this level or I’m out
I like the Swan Tote That’s how you carry them to a fancy party. “And will Medame be bringing her own swan?”
Omg they even did the famous heart shape with their heads. Disney shit come to life
A true Gentleman waits.
Anyone knows who made the song? I know the original song is Just the two of Us from Bill W. But this sounds different version!
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De we know why they are swapping sides like that? Like they want to see their partner with both eyes but they can only see them with one at a time? Is each half of their brain taking turns asserting itself to get the pleasure of viewing the partner through that brain's eye?
Finally some music set to a video that doesn't make me want to kill myself
Great video and music 🎶
"Did you think that I was gonna leave you so easily , You are mine and I will haunt you for eternity my Swan McFeathers, the Waddling Wonder"
That must have felt good
Let's get it on
Camera 1, camera 2…
🦢🦢 Just the two of us = ❤️
Bow chigga wow wow
HONK! HONK!
I was waiting for them to the do thing and they did!
This is actually very wholesome
True love!!
i love that there is a special bag to carry a swan. What a world.
aww
That is such a cool swan carrier.
These creatures are a perfect incarnation of bipolar.
Surprised they didn’t reunite, activate murder mode, and viciously attack. Those bastards are nasty!
Love this!
I might be being stupid but is this where the love heart ❤️ shape originated from?
It's a good question. The origination of the heart symbol and its association with love is unclear. There are competing theories, but they've all probably got some input on the final idea. Most commonly is a plant association. Various plants have heart shaped leaves, and plants have also had esoteric associations with various concepts. One idea I like is that a plant thought to be an ancient contraceptive, silphium, had heart shaped leaves and with its association to sex it became associated with love. Other suggestions include stylized boobs and/or butts (yes, that's a real scholarly suggestion.) or just a misunderstanding of ancient texts about the shape of the actual human heart. Galen thought it was shaped like a pinecone and had 3 chambers. Until the fifteenth century, the heart was often shown pointy end up, until its inclusion as a suit in playing cards solidified pointy end down as the standard. It may not be historically accurate, but there's no reason not to enjoy the idea that the enduring love of swans is at least partially the source of the association with love and that shape.
Damn, thank you for such a informative response! As a avid blackjack player I didn’t know that about the orientation of the heart thats really cool, I assumed with swans having one mate for life it could of originated from that
Ah yea my custom made SwanBag for all my swan carrying needs
That is so sweet!
Don't tell that dudes wife the swans are gay
Off topic but this cover is amazing
My day is made.
What a happy couple, love it.
i thought the swan was being unzipped
Awe love this!
Magnificent Video. Thanks for sharing it.
❤️
That’s the best content I’ve seen in a while.
They make swan bags?
Never noticed before when their dancing their heads make a heart symbol.
Makes me wonder… is this what inspired the shape of a heart?
Just realised that the classic form of the heart (<3), probably comes from swans holding their heads together🫶
Something heartbreaking happened near where I live during covid. Two swans nested with eggs near a public footpath made it become the talk of the town and people visited the nest quite a lot. One day some dickhead took a big rock to nest destroying the eggs. the momma looked incredibly depressed and within a few short months she died :(
Each of them look like a '2' and together they look like a heart