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Tag: goose

Wild Goose Chase – the math(s)

December 30, 2019 Martin Gardiner

If you’re earnestly chasing something that can’t tun as fast as you do, a cursory mathematical analysis of the situation can give a reassuring result – you’ll probably catch up with it. (Despite what the Ancient Greek philosopher Zeno might have said about it). But what if the entity being chased knows that it’s being […]

Arts and Sciencechase, geese, goose, math, maths, wild

Wall on Coots’ Consumption of Gull Droppings

May 3, 2014 Marc Abrahams

Wall was a master an analyzing British bird droppings, as is evident in this study: “Coots and other birds eating goose- and gull-droppings,” T. Wall, British Birds. Vol. 76, no. 9, 1983, pp. 410-411.

Research Newsbird, British, coots, droppings, goose, gulls
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