Question

[revchris]

Somebody just asked me this, so I'm passing it along:

When geese fly in their usual "V" formation, one arm of the vee is longer than the other. Why is that?

Comments

[teeka.livejournal.com]

Doesn't it have something to do with wind direction, and the stronger geese flying in the, whatever the technical term is, they fly closer to the wind, so the weaker geese in the flock don't have as much wind pressing against them or some junk?

[revchris.livejournal.com]

The "official" answer is that there're more geese in the longer one.

[mykwud.livejournal.com]

hahaha, I remember this from grade-school!!

Of course, our answer was more smarmily-phrased as "because there's more geese on that side, STUPID!!!" :D