Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1911 — Wild Geese Are Monogamists. [ARTICLE]

Wild Geese Are Monogamists.

Poetic license wu indulged in by the author who wrote “No goose so gray but some time, soon or late, she’ll find a courtly gander for a mate.*’ The fact is wild geese are monogamists, and a gander that has lost his mate becomes an odd one. or. in other wohi*» a lonesome old fellow forever. Sometimes, but frequently, a goose that baa lost her gander mate will -mate again, but it is not common among wild geese. The rule does not hold, however, among the domestic fowl.--National Magazine.