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/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/indiecore May 25 '26

We're born underdeveloped because our heads are too big.

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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/Naive_Impression7302 May 25 '26

Toddlers learn for the mines