File :-(, x, )
Anonymous
=(
>> Anonymous
D:
>> Anonymous
I don't think baby ducks are stupid enough to slip through gate holes like that. Besides, it looks like they are too big to fit.
>> Anonymous
^ I mean grate holes.
>> Anonymous
>>292350

real pic, but rescuers got them out after the photo was taken and all is well
>> Anonymous
>>292350

Don't have much to do with duckings, or indeed, any sort of baby bird, do you? They're programmed to follow mother. Simple. I had to rescue plover chicks once in exactly the same situation. The parents were going insane but I managed to get the chicks out before the parents started attacking. Needn't have bothered. Between butcher birds, foxes, snakes and cats there was absolutely nothing left of the chicks within four days of hatching. I was in that area for three and a half years and I don't think the parent birds managed to successfully raise a single chick in all that time.

There are some highly intelligent bird species out there but they're vastly outweighed by the stupid ones. Bit like humans, really.
>> 19
>>292380
that post is why i love /an/, along with caturday.
>> Anonymous
a duck nibbled by toe today.
weeeeird stuff
>> Anonymous
>>292350
I watched that happen in northwest portland once, back in May. I watched the mother duck walk by a grate, and four of the stupid ducklings JUMPED IN. They didn't fall. They must have heard running water and felt the cool air down there. Pretty soon the whole neighborhood was out, prying up manholes and corralling the mother duck and remaining ducklings. We managed to save all of them except one. Brought the whole family to a park and set them loose. I hope they didn't make the same mistake again.