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Show Wild Goose Dies After 21 Years' Domestic Life Woodland, Cal. Twenty-one years ago Ben Draeger. local blacksmith, wounded a wild goose while hunting. He brought it home and with it another an-other that refused to leave the injured in-jured bird. Recently, one of the two birds died at an age declared by local hunters to be "almost unbelievable." Hunters pointed out that wild geese are difficult to keep at best, and that even in their wild state they do not live more than five to eight years. |