Chick Jumps Off Cliff | Life Story | BBC Earth

The perfect launch. And a controlled drop. This is as good a descent as it's possible to make. Its parents are there to meet it. A little dazed perhaps, but all in one piece. One gosling, at least, hasn't made it. And this chick appears to be in a bad way. At last, it responds to its mother's calls. The resilience of a barnacle goose chick is extraordinary. But there are still chicks unaccounted for, somewhere amongst the rubble. The parents can't risk searching because they need to lead their two survivors away quickly, before predators arrive. A third one has made it. But it needs to catch up. Reunited. Three out of five chicks have made it. Without such a dramatic start in life, it's unlikely any of them would have even got this far.

Channel: BBC Earth

Views: 40,959,037

Rating: 4.7534833 out of 5

Keywords: baby bird jumps off cliff, barnacle goose chick jump, birds jumping off cliff, bbc, barnacle goose, chick jumps off cliff, chicks jump off cliff, life story bbc, animals falling off cliffs, chick in danger, Gosling, Nature, Falling, flying, birds, Geese, life story, wildlife, chick jump, bbc earth

Id: rxGuNJ-nEYg

Length: 4min 16sec (256 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 28 2015

Reddit Comments

[u/dgrant]

TIL there are Goose Barnacles and there are Barnacle Geese.

[u/cantCommitToAHobby]

nsfl (if you are a guillemot) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EYXdEsW6xw

[u/tonycocacola]

have you seen snakes v iguana from planet earth 2?

https://youtu.be/Rv9hn4IGofM

Snakes everywhere!

[u/DrStrangelof]

Nature is depressing sometimes

[u/Mikeemoo]

I love the BBC.

[u/dandiestdog]

The Homer Simpson school of falling https://youtu.be/hc8ngiMlCto

[u/[deleted]]

'This is as good descent as is possible to make"

Nails 49 rocks on the way down.

[u/HackQuack]

Here I thought the old "I walked 3 miles to school, in the snow, barefooted, uphill" was man talk.

[u/[deleted]]

HOw the fuck do these things survive.......