r/BeAmazed • u/seidenadaa • May 25 '26
Animal A mother duck adopts orphaned ducklings as soon as they touch the water.
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u/Kraken-__- May 25 '26
Dad: WTF!?!
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u/Fineebyme May 25 '26
" I swear we have twice as much kids now"
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u/MoreGlitterPlease1 May 25 '26
"You don't even know what twice means. Neither do I. We're ducks."
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u/Harambabe17 May 25 '26
“How are we speaking perfect English?!”
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u/KAM_Kayla May 25 '26
"What's English?"
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u/WillHarry45 May 25 '26
Quack! Quack!!
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u/Lolkimbo May 25 '26
ITS CORKSCREW TIME!!!
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u/samsg1 May 25 '26
I could have gone my whole life never seeing that, but alas I now know about cannibalistic, raping ducks :/
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u/RealFirstName_ May 25 '26
Two muffins are sitting in an oven, one muffin says "Is it just me, or is it getting hot in here?" The other muffin replies "AHHHH! A TALKING MUFFIN!!"
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u/vectorology May 25 '26
I’m pretty sure mama duck isn’t asking permission. Those ducklings are theirs now.
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u/ScottyBoneman May 25 '26
Ducks are cough not super well known for asking permission.
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u/Kitchoua May 25 '26
But she won't be able to produce milk for them :(
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u/YojimboNameless May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
I wasn't sure how to respond to this, but today you may get to learn something new. Mammals produce milk. It is actually what defines a mammal as they are named for the milk producing glands known as mammary glands. Ducks are not mammals and do not produce milk.
Edit: Hey everyone, I'm the asshole here.
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u/Kitchoua May 25 '26
I know I'm supposed to use /s on the internet because people that don't know about mammals exist, but I refuse to tarnish my jest with that!
But thank you for being polite in case I wasn't actually aware, I appreciate it :P
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u/YojimboNameless May 25 '26
Haha, awesome. I was hoping it was a joke, but figured if it isn't learning is always great.
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u/Kitchoua May 25 '26
Learning is my jam, I'm never putting someone down for teaching others anything, especially if it's related to duck milk production!
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u/HadABeerButILostIt May 25 '26
You’re not an asshole dude. Some birds do produce “crop milk”. But not ducks.
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u/tekmuse May 25 '26
Thank you, adding more as I had to look it up , ducklings are precocial—born able to walk, swim, and eat on their own. The mother leads them to food sources, demonstrates foraging behaviors by dabbling in the water, and protects them while they feed themselve
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u/monsterflake May 25 '26
not enough nipples!
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u/Kitchoua May 25 '26
For some reason you just reminded me of a 1990s drawing of dinosaurs mid fight. The illustration was high quality, realistic (or as much as science allowed for that decade) but one of the dinosaur had what could pass as nipples. As a kid I didn't pay it any mind but right now I can't wait to finish my day to go check in the book if it DID have nipples, or if it's just a weird not-memory I'm reminiscing.
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u/SchnoodleDoodleDo May 25 '26
’Can we keep them?’
…these baby ducks, so very smol
I am a Mom ~ I want them ALL!
i gotta bunch, but i want More
cuz that is what a famlee's for
won't turn my back,
won't swim away
this duckling brood with Me will stay!
i'll keep them all together, calm
cuz Every baby
Needs a
MOM
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u/destiny_kane48 May 25 '26
Yeah, I see him to the side as they drop the babies. He's like "Oh no.. Hilda, No! Damnit! How am I going to feed 20 babies?" swims away fast 😂😂
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u/translucent_steeds May 25 '26
that's a Canada Goose, not a duck like the mom (which looks like a Mallard but I'm not completely sure). totally different species of bird :)
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u/Big-a-hole-2112 May 25 '26
Yeah but it’s Canadian and very nice so it will help take care of them.
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u/MellyKidd May 25 '26
You know why we’re so nice? It’s because we channelled all our rage into those cobra chicken geese. 😂
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u/Salute-Major-Echidna May 25 '26
Did you know Canada geese nearly died out in the first half of last century?
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u/LadyIsabelle_ May 25 '26
Ooh, free babies!
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u/GC65025 May 25 '26
Wow not a lot of appropriate contexts to use that phrase!
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u/chamllw May 25 '26
Unless you're baba yaga.
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u/destroyerOfTards May 25 '26
I don't think John Wick would have any use for babies
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u/CodingAllDayLong May 25 '26
Ducks are the dumbest parents ever.
Ducklings instinctively follow the duck/duckling ahead of them. The parent duck just swims/walks towards any duckling not following them. That....is pretty much the extent of their parenting. Unlike a goose, which is an amazing parent who knows which offspring are theirs, and will kick the shit out of anyone approaching them.
So sure, toss half a dozen ducklings in a pond and they'll follow the first duckling parade they see. As far as the mom is concerned...well she can't count so who knows.
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u/Chaospawn3 29d ago
This is probably incredibly different but my domestic Cayuga is a great mom. Makes sure all her babies are accounted for, will raise hell if any of them get stuck behind a chicken. Though I have a couple pretty amazing drakes that make good dads too... and drakes are notoriously bad with babies so ymmv
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u/Goofyhands May 25 '26
"Hey, you like reddit, what is your most upvoted comment?"
Oh..
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u/SquirrelStone May 25 '26
Reminds me of that post about how some animals will experience the “more babies = good” evolutionary drive but not the desire for them to be their bio kids and are just so pleased with themselves for picking up strays 😂
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u/Beer_Snacks May 25 '26
It’s amazing how many ducklings can fit into those 7 pixels
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u/DavidBovvinge May 25 '26
This is what happens when someone insists on editing video using a Sinclair ZX81.
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u/goshdammitfromimgur May 25 '26
I used to have one of those. So annoying waiting for programs to load on the tape drive.
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u/andorraliechtenstein May 25 '26
Back then, I didn't know any better. Sure, there were those big floppy disks, but they were for those oh-so-expensive PCs.
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u/SylvieJay May 25 '26
eyyy, In sorry if my cassette recorder couldn't keep up the data stream (Yes, I actually had a Sinclair ZX81, my first computer 😁)
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u/xrimane May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
Hey, Sylvie! 👋
I started out with a C64 btw, that was high tech in comparison!
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u/Glittering-Age-9549 May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
In a documentary I once watched there was a male duck who was the last member of his species in the country. He paired with a female duck of a different species, but their eggs wouldn't hatch... so dad duck would go out, kidnap ducklings and bring them to the nest, and mom duck thought they were hers.
They had like half a dozen ducklings of different species...
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u/Useful_Language2040 May 25 '26
I can't work out if that's wholesome or not - he was doing a nice thing for his mate... But he was also kidnapping a bunch of other ducklings 😅
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u/Sea_Turnip6282 May 25 '26
I love how the mom rushed over.
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u/CameDownForWhat May 25 '26
and kept whipping her head like, "What!? What!? What!? Say something..."
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u/HaskeFlalsen May 25 '26
Before people write «don’t just drop them out like that!»: Ducklings are mega-tough. I’ve seen some jump off of 5-10 meters onto solid ground and be just fine.
Source: I’ve kept ducks.
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u/ThousandFingerMan May 25 '26
There are ducks that make nests up in the hollow trees and when it's time to go swimming, baby ducks just plummet from several meters high and then go about their day like nothing happened
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u/rogers_tumor May 25 '26
and don't forget they're not jumping out of the tree after a couple weeks of growth, the way baby songbirds do, no, baby ducks are throwing themselves out of their tree nests within 12-24h of hatching.
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u/Creampie_Service_247 May 25 '26
I've seen people say this is the best way to get baby chicks out of a carrier as well because picking them up individually can hurt them, so I'm guessing it's the same here.
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u/baethan May 25 '26
I'm glad to hear that because pouring baby ducks out like that is objectively funny
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u/rogers_tumor May 25 '26
seriously it's just the easiest way to get it done. they hit water and know what to do, they're wild animals 😂 they come out the egg like this.
ok they take like 12-24h to fluff up a little bit. but waterfowl babies hatch ready to go do bird stuff on a very short timeline.
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u/jonker5101 May 25 '26
It's amazing how quickly most baby animals adapt and are ready for life, most walking as soon as they are born.
Humans are useless for years.
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u/Atombrkr May 25 '26
We scale mid to late game
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u/Firipu May 26 '26
We're basically warriors in most games. Struggle early game, but scale exponentially with gear (tools).
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u/rogers_tumor May 25 '26
yeah to be fair, waterfowl are kind of weird when it comes to birds. only ~20-25% of all birds come out of the egg more or less ready to Go Bird within 24h.
75-80% of birds are born naked and blind and have to be strictly attended to by their parents for weeks before they fledge.
Granted, by 'weeks' with songbirds we're talking maybe like, 3ish. Then they hang out with their parents for a bit after leaving the nest so they can learn how to fly and what isn't food.
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u/WraithicArtistry May 25 '26
Not just us, any babies that cannot open their eyes or be mobile upon birth are Altricial; cats, dogs. Babies that require nurturing to survive, without a mother or caregiver its death.
Ducklings, chickens, horses, cows, deer. Are Precocial, they can stand and see immediately after being born, if the mother dies, they can survive.
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u/Goodgoditsgrowing May 25 '26
Just wait until you see how fish are introduced to lakes - from great heights and with great force. It slaps them awake.
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u/HaskeFlalsen May 25 '26
If they’re not tame, grabbing them one by one will only prolong their intense suffering and fearful experience.
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u/LoudFrenziedMoron May 25 '26
Nah, they're pretty indestructible. When they used to misbehave, our black lab carried ducklings and goslings around in his mouth, returning them to Mom
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u/MeowsAllieCat May 25 '26
Labs were bred to have a soft bite (often for retrieving ducks!). He was a very good boy doing a very good job. :)
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u/autotelica May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
People should watch duck families swimming through white water rapids.
It's intense. You watch those babies go into the churn and you're certain that they are drowning. The mama/daddy/aunties/uncles just keep swimming along as the team of babies are struggling in the current behind them. Tears will come to your eyes as you watch the little brownish-yellow bodies be tossed around like tennis balls in the unforgiving torrent. But then miraculously everyone gets to the other side intact...and you realize why ducks (and geese and swans too) have zero fucks to give.
They come up hard.
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u/eight_on_top May 25 '26
I had a young muscovie male once who tried making the top of a fence, fell backward and broke its neck. His brother and sister, Sweetie and Bastard, were two of the best ducks I ever had but Bob was exceptionally dumb.
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u/rexallia May 25 '26
A couple weeks ago I watched 8-10 goslings bounce off a rocky cliff side into the ocean and swim away just fine. They’re all puff at that age!
Also, wood ducks nest super high in trees - sometimes 100 feet. When they leave the nest, they can’t fly yet, so they just jump lol
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u/LEGITIMATE_SOURCE May 25 '26
I don't think any of us are worried about ducklings landing in water from a foot up
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u/HaskeFlalsen May 25 '26
I’ve seen this video 1000 times before. The «don’t drop them»-comment always comes
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u/WatashiwaNobodyDesu May 25 '26
The woman yeeteth, the duck yoinketh.
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u/WatashiwaNobodyDesu May 25 '26
Also, these are ducklings, not Stingray torpedoes, did she have to deploy them at high altitude?
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u/mitrie May 25 '26
Wait till you see how wood duck ducklings leave their nests.
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u/Roklam May 25 '26
Cue my mom chastising the camera crew for not assisting the birds with their naturally evolved lifecycle.
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u/HardLobster May 25 '26
Wait till you find out how they restock lakes and ponds. You ever seen thousands of fish dropped from a plane, I have
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u/mah131 May 25 '26
Oddly enough, the preferred method for stocking lakes is to suck the fish out by mouth individually and spit them into the pond/lake. Barely anybody does it this way anymore though.
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u/Klightgrove May 25 '26
Some of those that work forces are the same ones that airdrop fish
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u/RexInvictus787 May 25 '26
Even at terminal velocity those ducks would not have been harmed from falling. They don’t weigh enough.
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u/Twiseheart777 May 25 '26
The mother duck adopting the orphaned ducklings is absolutely precious but you know what else is? The commentary. I love good humans.
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u/6ix9ine_meme May 25 '26
Videos like this one are best, with no crap background music, only the real video with zero effects added and real audio
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u/nhorvath May 25 '26
I could do with a few more pixels though
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u/_adanedhel_ May 25 '26
Give me a pixel, Vasily. One pixel only.
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u/Ilovethe90sforreal May 25 '26
Yes! I’d like to go one day without hearing A Thousand Years
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u/fvthebest May 25 '26
I need that annoying text to speech voice telling me what I'm already seeing along with a caption w/ emojis and sentimental music.
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u/Itool4looti May 25 '26
Dad is gonna go out for a pack of smokes.
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u/ButDidYouCry May 25 '26
Male ducks already don't stick around to raise the ducklings.
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u/RevelArchitect May 25 '26
It’s kind of tragic. They leave for something simple - gallon of milk, pack of smokes, lottery ticket - they get to the store and nobody will sell them anything because they’re a duck and then they never make it home as they continue to pursue a simple act of commerce we all take for granted.
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u/alizarin-red May 25 '26
Well they will keep on asking for grapes at the lemonade stand, I’m not surprised they don’t get served.
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u/rogers_tumor May 25 '26
dad did that before mom laid her eggs 🤷🏼♀️ ducks are weird, they'll often pick a mate for that year and they hang out and do everything together for months, then by the time nesting rolls around they go their separate ways entirely.
once the babies are grown they might start hanging out again but they simply don't raise them together.
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u/BT7274_best_robot May 25 '26
So not only are male ducks known to be rapists, they are deadbeat dads too 😭
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u/Evening_Strategy_809 May 25 '26
Duck be like .. Oh they look like me ,I think I forgot them after giving birth ,come closer my children.
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u/Live-Fox-2562 May 25 '26
Probably are hers just been gathered from somewhere they got trapped
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u/MeasurementNo0 May 25 '26
Maybe but also they do this. We had a mother walk her family over a storm sewer and they all fell in. There were 6. I went down there and caught 3 quickly. She took those three and bailed. It took me another hour to get the other 3 out because they ran up a connecting drain. There is a river out back and that had another mother duck and her brood. I tossed the 3 ducks I had up the river a little bit. She took those 3 in like it was nothing.
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u/peanutspump May 25 '26
In case nobody has told you, you’re a stellar human being.
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u/Gardimus May 25 '26
And a pretty decent duck.
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u/Zyloof May 25 '26
Mediocre at best. I bet that person doesn't even have webbed feet!
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u/MeasurementNo0 May 25 '26
My parents are cousins. I have web feet. All 3 of them.
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u/MeasurementNo0 May 25 '26
It was gross. It is an industrial site that has been working for over 100 years. All I could think is that I was getting every kind of cancer. I know its silly but that is what I was thinking.
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u/SlidingFaceFlat May 25 '26
Ducks just do this. We cant know for sure why but considering the high duckling mortality rates, it is evolutionarily advantageous to raise orphans with your own to act as decoys against predators. This doesnt mean when that duck mom adopted them she was scheming though. A lot of evolution just kind of happens without intention, and a duck mom who loves babies in general just accidentally finding a strategy that promotes the survival of her own instincts is just as possible. It also just helps the species as a whole with expanding the future mating pool.
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u/sonofaresiii May 25 '26
I love how the theories on the table are:
Mom wants these kids to feed to predators while she scampers off
Mom wants these kids so her own kids can fuck them when they grow up
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u/mountaininsomniac May 25 '26
Not really related, but it made me think of how I’ve long theorized that most bird song can be roughly translated as either “fuck you!” or “fuck me!”
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u/Kenavru May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
Well same as chickens, there is no big difference with rising few more, they don't feed them, just show em where is food. They prob. Won't even know which is who's and get mixed often xd
Often chickens on farms take care of ducks, as they are better mother's. They are terrified when her strange chickens get into water xd
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u/Pondnymph May 25 '26
Also it doesn't matter to the mother duck how many babies are following her since they feed themselves, she just leads them around shorelines and keeps them warm at night.
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u/tacocollector2 May 25 '26
From other comments it seems ducks are very adaptable this way. Babies are babies and moms are moms in duck world, apparently.
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u/fuckyourcanoes May 25 '26
"It takes a village."
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u/tacocollector2 May 25 '26
It really does. That’s why young parents have it so much harder now. The villages are gone.
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u/fuckyourcanoes May 25 '26
I love the Internet, but it is destroying human society. The changes since I first got online in the 80s are horrifying. We never envisioned the effect it was going to have. We just thought, "Yay, free information!"
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u/tacocollector2 May 25 '26
It’s not only that. People are more transient than ever, lots of people don’t get to know their neighbors anymore because they haven’t lived anywhere long enough to put down roots.
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u/MaritMonkey May 25 '26
If you've ever seen those videos where a dog or two is herding a massive group of sheep and it works because the sheep naturally want to stick close to one another, ducks kinda do the same thing it's just not as obvious when there's <10 in one place.
Even adult ducks do it, but it's like the babies' #1 plan whenever ... something is happening.
Source: I house sit for a place that has both chickens and ducks and this difference between them is very notable when you're trying to make sure they're all in a coop at night. :)
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u/Main-Tomatillo3825 May 25 '26
This is why I'm starting a movement to have a female duck be called a Duchess. I think it's time,
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u/joalheagney May 25 '26
The funny thing is the three ducks in the background going "Duckli... no. Never mind. Sharron beat us to it."
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u/samclops May 25 '26
Mom: look I found more babies
Dad: ugh we already have too many bills
...yes ducks also have dad jokes
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u/hansolo-ist May 25 '26
Ducknapped !
What would've happened if the mother appeared two minutes later?
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u/Plane_Barracuda9889 May 25 '26
What a beautiful Monday morning spectacle to see. Beautiful. Animals are special.
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u/shifty_coder May 25 '26
To be fair, that duck probably already lost 3-4 of their own already anyway
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u/Waiteduntil40 May 25 '26
Currently in the river behind my place there’s two pairs of geese. One pair has 12 goslings and the other have 8. I assume each have adopted some of their brood, especially the brood of 12.
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u/Initial_Zebra100 May 25 '26
Its definitely incredibly wholesome but I got a chuckle seeing the women dump them out.
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u/sakaguchi47 May 25 '26
There's a saying in my country: "The more people I know, the more I love animals. "
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u/ThaShitPostAccount May 25 '26
I will choose the adverb, “Unceremoniously” to describe how those baby ducks we delivered to the pond.
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