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A gaggle of baby geese<\/a> was separated from their mother, which is always sad to hear. But what they found in the form of a new caregiver is melting hearts across the world.<\/p>\n In a new viral animal video, we see a tiny brood of goslings follow and emotionally bond with their rescuer, a young fisherman.<\/p>\n This touching animal rescue<\/a> video shows the strong attachment young birds<\/a> can form with a dedicated caregiver. No wonder people can’t stop watching!<\/p>\n Why Baby Geese Bond With Caregivers<\/p>\n We see in the sweet video that the baby geese are clinging to the fisherman, named Alex Corregidor Ellison, who found them in Tjarno, Sweden, while fishing with a friend.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I turned around, I saw five baby geese swimming towards us, resulting in them trying to climb all over us, as if we were their mother,\u201d Ellison said.<\/p>\n Though the baby geese were reunited with their mother shortly after this, they bonded so fast with Alex and his friend.<\/p>\n Why did that happen so fast?<\/p>\n When goslings are separated from their parents, they immediately look for the next reliable caregiver and form an attachment.<\/p>\n Related: This Goose Ignores 80 MPH Winds Like a Tiny Storm Chaser<\/a><\/p>\n Alex and his friend were gentle and sweet\u2014they even made quack sounds!\u2014and clearly were not a threat to these young birds.<\/p>\n The baby geese immediately began to imprint on their surrogate parent, even if it was only for a few minutes.<\/p>\n Ellison smartly realized that their mother was hopefully not too far, so they decided to separate from them.<\/p>\n \u201cWe left the babies shortly after so that the mother could return to them, and surely enough, a few minutes later, they were reunited,” he told Storyful.<\/p>\n A happy ending for this heartwarming rescue video.<\/p>\n It reminds me a bit of the wonderful 1996 film, Fly Away Home, starring Anna Paquin, in which a gaggle of baby geese, also abandoned by their parent, imprint on a young and somewhat lonely preteen.<\/p>\n Eventually, she and her father decided the geese needed to fly south for the winter, and she did so by guiding them while flying her own plane that looked like a big mama goose<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you feel like crying a whole lot, then this is the film for you.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc36<\/a>SIGN UP to get \u201cpawsitivity\u201d delivered right to your inbox with inspiring & entertaining stories about our furry & feathered friends<\/a>\ud83d\udc3e\ud83d\udc3e<\/a><\/p>\n This story was originally published by Parade Pets<\/a> on May 17, 2026, where it first appeared in the Pet News<\/a> section. Add Parade Pets as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parade Pets and Yahoo may earn commission from links in this article. A gaggle of baby geese was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[209478,209479,209480,85,46,141,386],"class_list":["post-447675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-alex-corregidor-ellison","tag-animal-video","tag-baby-geese","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}