The Canada Goose. Perhaps one of the most loathed animals on campus at the University of Waterloo.

They're such arrogant animals. There are many occasions when they will cross the road in front of moving traffic, knowing that the cars will stop for them. When students are walking around campus, the geese will also enjoy the same unmovable status, and they will not move when a student approaches them, often hissing at approaching pedestrians forcing poor students to take a longer route to class.

But I noticed something strange the other day while arriving at work. I work in the United States now, and when I got out of my car and walked towards the back door at my office, I noticed that there was a fairly large group of geese occupying the walkway, effectively blocking my way to the entrance.

Maybe I was still too tired, so I didn't think much of it, but I continued to walk towards the gathering of geese. And to my surprise, the geese ran away from me and immediately cleared a path allowing me to walk freely on the path.

It's almost as if the geese know that when they're in Canada, they enjoy some sort of royal status, and act all arrogant about it. But in the US, they know they don't have any protection from the government, so they know well to get out of an American's way.

Who would have thought? Or maybe just the geese that never cross the American border don't learn to be arrogant since they aren't treated with the same respect as they are in Canada.