Answer:
A reaction to being spooked that takes its name from waterfowl
I am so simple that I can only point. Yet I guide men all over the world.
What is that which, though black itself, enlightens the world without burning?
Who is that with a neck and no head, two arms and no hands? What is it?
I can move even when you are still. I can be one or many.
Why was the cook arrested?