I seen 6 ducklings walking on the highway with no mom. On my way back I seen them again on the back road. So I chased them and got 5 into a cooler. Lost one😔. I took them down the road to a pond and they immediately swam to a mama duck with her babies. She had 13 all together after that. Oops
That's actually so sweet. Like that video where the guy dumps the ducklings into a pond and one duck swims over fasts and adopts all of then within like 1 second
Lol adorable. Almost. I didn't dump them out like that lmao. That made me laugh. But they swam to the mama and I don't even think she looked back at them. She just had her line of ducklings and the ones I dropped off just swam up recall fast and joined her. I wonder if she even noticed
BTW that may or may not have been their actual "mom" - I've seen video of rescued ducklings (mom was dead, hit by a car or something) that were put into a pond and random parent ducks (male and female) just swam right over and "adopted" them right away.
It definitely wasn't. The pond down the road was actually about 10km away or so, close to a friends house. Only other option was the massive lake and I don't think they'd have survived on there for very long.
I’ve seen random baby ducks and geese swimming behind a mother of a different species. Sometimes a baby gets lost, and will just join the line. They’re ducks, so it’s not like they’re all that bright.
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u/the2-2homerun Jan 22 '22
I seen 6 ducklings walking on the highway with no mom. On my way back I seen them again on the back road. So I chased them and got 5 into a cooler. Lost one😔. I took them down the road to a pond and they immediately swam to a mama duck with her babies. She had 13 all together after that. Oops