Bar-headed goose flies alongside its human foster parent

Bar-headed geese are "the astronauts of the bird world," migrating above 26,000 feet, according to a New York Times article.

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Dr. Jessica Meir, the bike rider in the video up top, works on a wind-tunnel experiment with a bar-headed goose, shown in super slow-motion.

Dr. Meir and her group published their findings on the physiology of bar-headed geese high-altitude flight in a paper that appeared this past September.