Feigning injury to lure a predator away from chicks is a common behavior for these geese, but rarely caught on camera.
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A leopard known as Hosana stalks a family of Egyptian geese. One of the goose parents feigns an injury to distract the leopard from the goose chicks. Feigning injury to lure a predator away from chicks is a common behavior for these geese, but rarely caught on camera. Hosana concedes and retreats back to eat an impala that he’d recently killed.
Read more in “This goose feigns injury to save its chicks from a leopard”
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/12/egyptian-goose-feigns-injury-tricks-leopard-safari/
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