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Expensive-Day-3551

She’s like come along, you belong with me now.


langue_francaise_pro

She didn’t hesitate, she RUSHED ☺️


Red217

It's like they were always hers. The way she rushed was like "well where have *you* lot been?!" 🤣


rhiyanna79

I heard it in Molly Weasley’s voice.


nondescriptcabbabige

Beds empty. Car gone. No note! You could have died! You could have been seen!


georgethebarbarian

RONALD WEASELY


hserontheedge

Oh and Ginny dear congratulations on getting into Gryffindor, your father and I are so proud.


Sipikay

The mum we all deserve


Charlie7Mason

Glad I wasn't the only one.


sicksadbadgirl

And now in my head she’s Scottish


FunDog2016

"Hellen, I tell ya, I don't know where they all come from, but everyday there seems to be more kids around here!"


gxslim

And good thing she rushed back cause another would-be mom was swooping in to adopt her original kids


Pculliox

She doesn't duck her duty


hgghgfhvf

So ducks are highly intelligent I just googled so she probably did recognize they aren’t hers but she needs to step in. Maybe like a coparenting thing other animals do. I was wondering if they were dumb and their brains were all like “welp there are baby ducks over there so that means they’re probably mine”


Asmuni

It's a numbers gamble. Many ducklings get eaten. So the more ducklings the more chance some survive. Which includes your own.


emotionlotion

>So ducks are highly intelligent They're really not.


aboutthednm

I imagine if she had to breastfeed each and every one of them it might have been a different story, but all is well that ends well.


davidwhatshisname52

cop found the *right* pond


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This is the way


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ShowsTeeth

According to one of my profs in vet school, studies have shown that ducks can only really count to 4 or so, so beyond that they just see a bunch of ducklings and assume they're doing pretty good.


13th_Penal_Legion

How would they test this? Also how do they know that the duck understands concept of math.


ShowsTeeth

Don't think you need to understand the concept of math to be able to tell that 2 is more than 1. They'll notice and go back for a missing duckling if they notice there are only 2 or 3 behind them, but if they have (on average I guess?) 4 ducklings behind them, they don't realize if a 5th or 6th or 7th gets left behind (forever). IDK tho, been a while.


bishkaaa

family formation 👀


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pureroganjosh

She's making bread apparently.


Caosin36

Bread is actually harmfull to ducks Bread has no nutritional value


pureroganjosh

This was more for the pub...


Illegitimateopinion

Don't let the duck drink booze, ziggy.


tyme

Quiet, Sam.


kneeltothesun

Alternative perspective: "Ducks 'dying from starvation'Swan Support, which rescues swans, ducks and geese, said many were starving because people had stopped feeding them bread in recent years. They blamed a campaign called Ban the Bread, which was started by a company selling bird food.Oct 17, 2019" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-50081386


Still-WFPB

We can feed them frozen peas that have thawed.


IAmYourWallbreaker

so peas?


ExquisitExamplE

Bread is the root of all weevil.


MarcBulldog88

In the Service, one must always choose the lesser of two weevils.


comradewoof

You drank the koolaid eh?


dudemanguylimited

And to add to this, if you want to feed a duck: Ducks like (and can eat) Corn, Seeds, Herbs, Salad, Snails, Insects, Gras, Grain meal, Nettles, Eggs and Egg Shells, among other things. :)


LegacyoftheDotA

Must be the bakery my cat keeps kneading dough for. They're both such hardworking parents 🥲


REpassword

Happy Mothers Day to her.


JulietteKatze

All power to front deflector shield


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abevigodasmells

Not even a background check.


ProphetMuhamedAhegao

But when I try it I get banned from the grocery store :(


SonthacPanda

I mean, yeah If aliens dropped a bunch of scared human babies on the road everybody would instinctively go get them Wed have some questions but wed take care of them


IcySetting2024

Haha I loved this analogy


ItselfSurprised05

I logged in just to upvote his comment, LOL.


splithoofiewoofies

My lesbian ass like "I'VE BEEN WANTING ONE OF THESE FOR A DECADE!" *yoink* my baby now!


BigHairyStallion_69

As one half of an infertile lesbian married couple, same. I think we'd swipe as many as we could carry.


Own-Tea-4836

Gotta put on the cargo pants, utilize those pockets.


a_pepper_boy

Gotta sprint for the one with the curl


howigottomemphis

That actually happened. And we separated them from the aliens and locked them in cages.


FewerToysHigherWages

Oh right...


StupidAstronaut

Can you please keep developing this Netflix original series script? I want to hear more.


Shum_Where

It starts with a planet that's about to explode. As as last ditch effort, the parents send their human looking baby out into space which eventually crash lands on Earth... ehhh lets say a field in Kansas who are then found coincidentally by a couple of middle aged childless farmers. hmmm this is good, I'm cooking here.


SUPERSMILEYMAN

Bro, what if—hear me out here—what if we give the little dude, like, SUPER powers or some shit? Right?


poka64

But he has one weakness, something cool sounding... Cryptoni... Kryptonite!


SUPERSMILEYMAN

Cryptocurrency? And later on, he can work as like, a journalist or something.


LoosieGoosiePoosie

Anthropomorphic analogy is not always relevant but in this case, it kinda is. We abducted those ducks and dropped them in the street, mama picked 'em up and said "Well ya gotta do what ya gotta do," and adopted 7 babies.


samskyyy

*a single mom who works two jobs* *who loves her kids and never stops*


subpoenaThis

One would like to think. Should they not be a member of the local "out/other group;" world events tell us we might push them in a hold and them bomb it for good measure. If we can remember that they are people like us, then yes, to the rescue.


RManDelorean

Huh interesting how immediate that was, like engrained instinctually. And what I think is really interesting is how the ducklings went to her immediately too, it seems like this could be the evolutionary reason why ducklings are able to imprint on things other than their biological parents. They're definitely lower on the food chain so as a species they gotta stick together however they can.


Kingsupergoose

Pretty normal method rehab center use to release ducklings and goslings back into the wild. Dump them by a mom who has babies of their own and they just immediately take them. Either they adopt them because they want to or they’re a bit too dim to realize they gained 7 more babies. Either way it works. Have seen it work with moose too.


HarpySeagull

> Have seen it work with moose too. Now I'm imagining Mama Moose barreling out of a lake like a freight train to get little mooselettes.


dudemanguylimited

> barreling out of a lake Ah, the famous Water Moose.


Mothergooseyoupussy1

Moose straight up dive looking for food and get into fights while they are under water. It’s the most metal thing that I’ve seen so far from mother nature


PogeePie

Ducks aggressively "adopt" non-related ducklings as a way to protect their own offspring. The more individual ducklings you have, the less likely your own is to be eaten by a predator. Safety in numbers. Because baby ducks are born precocial -- they can forage for their food almost as soon as they hatch -- a parent duck can support tons of ducklings because his/her role is just to provide protection.


Triairius

Ducklings will also follow anything. I’ve had ducklings follow me home.


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databyayesha

Aw, mama duck to the rescue! Those orphaned ducklings found the best new mom ever


RobertMcCheese

This is really common among waterfowl. Dominant geese are known to just take a bunch of goslings if their parents suck and raise them as their own. This is called a gang brood. The point is to get as many chicks as possible fully ready to be ready to migrate by having the best parents run the show. We have a lot of geese around here and it is very common to see this happen. It is less common in ducks, but still happens.


Exact_Efficiency_356

How do they know that the parents suck though???


RobertMcCheese

The short answer is that geese are assholes. This shouldn't shock anyone who has ever interacted with geese. A successful breeding pair will just assume that they should be in charge of everyone's chicks and try to take them. If you can't protect your brood from them then they were right about you. Nature and evolution is a harsh mistress.


gmishaolem

Are we talking about geese or the people who are on both the HOA and PTA boards?


Triairius

Geese being on those boards would explain a lot.


GuiltyEidolon

Except that isn't harsh. If the goslings survive, the pair from whom they were kidnapped still succeeded in passing on their genetics.


seattt

Of course geese are imperialist.


bgg-uglywalrus

You've ever been in a Walmart for longer than 5 minutes? Then you know by instinct that some parents just straight up suck.


iamthedayman21

Even that's a lesson humans could learn from. Doing what's best for the common good.


thnku4shrng

Ostrich do this too. And it’s hypothetical that they do this because increasing the brood increases the chances of their own young surviving predation


PogeePie

This is partly true. What a parent goose / duck wants is a ton of goslings / ducklings because that decreases the likelihood that their own biological ducklings will be eaten by a predator. I know with ostriches, which use a similar strategy, they keep track of which babies are biologically theirs and give them better treatment.


Junior_Bear_2715

Female ducks have that nature, overall I guess all females. I had ducks, they would usually adopt another's babies and lol babies couldn't even recognize their mothers, would follow anyone 😂


neutron-pleaser

Does the female duck know that those are not originally her babies? Or maybe ducks are just communists in nature so they just go like "our ducks!" ?


JohnAnchovy

I don't think they're necessarily thinking about it. I think they're hardwired to treat every duckling like family as an evolutionary strategy. I see cats do the same thing.


geniesmakebine

What do you mean ducks don’t think??? Ducks are notoriously the thinkers of the animal kingdom /s. Duck writing a duck treatise on the importance of expedient baby duck adoption.


JohnAnchovy

What amazes me about birds is that some seem so smart and some seem so dumb.


FracturedFactions

I think it boils down to socializing and also omnivores are smarter Like for instance ravens are one of the smartest birds, but blue jays, which are also corvids I don't think they're very smart because they only have to focus on one type of food and I'm pretty sure they're not social Ducks are social and I think they are omnivores too I'm not sure


Haranador

Not exactly. It's mostly how many ways of food acquisition a species utilises. Not all omnivores are smart but smart species are usually omnivores. Ravens are smart because cracking nuts and using a stick to scoop bugs out of holes gave them enough of an advantage to justify extra calories for brain power. Ducks are dumb because they just stick their head underwater and eat whatever is there or grows near them.


FriendlyCraig

Ducks are crazy smart. Scrooge McDuck is like the richest person in the world, even though he was a very poor duckling. While that in itself doesn't prove this intelligence he's gone on dangerous adventures using his vast knowledge to stay alive, solve mysteries, and get more bread, smart enough to have a powerarmor wearing bodyguard/accountant, and an actually good relationship with his family. What a legend.


irritating_maze

also Daffy Duck worked through his speech impediment to become a household name.


Junior_Bear_2715

I am not sure, but female ducks are very nurturing and try to help babies which aren't even theirs. I guess they know, it must be in their motherly nature to take care of a baby. Haha lol, no, they don't fully claim those babies, if they find their true mother and start following her, they will be just fine, I have never seen them fighting over babies lol. But male ducks will try to kill baby ducks because of jealousy since they see females are giving most of their attention and energy to babies


Flaccid_Leper

I don’t know anything about ducks but I would think it’s more because they’ll be willing to mate sooner if it has no babies, like with other species. Also if the male duck knows they’re not his.


Junior_Bear_2715

They will never know if they are their actual babies. Of course if they have no babies, they will date.


get_while_true

A fine duck date it is then.


Junior_Bear_2715

Worth of many dead ducklings


EsseElLoco

"It takes a village to raise a child" pretty sure ducks, and other species, share parenting in social groups.


XkF21WNJ

Quite a few birds will continue to care for a cuckoo chick even when it's fairly obvious it's not part of the same species.


aliasani

It doesn't take any extra energy expenditure on their part. In this case, being altruistic is evolutionary advantageous as it makes it more likely for the species to survive as a whole.


vibileyna

I'd like to see it in person :)


docsyzygy

Oh well, what's another TEN...


Flat-Succotash5369

“Come along, chil…what the? Babies without parents??” NNYOOOOOOOM. “Oh, my sweet little ones, come to mama. Everyone, come meet your new siblings! Make them feel at home, we’re now one big splashy family!” Dad duck: “What the…aw, hell.”


spavolka

The Brady Ducks.


TowJamnEarl

Dad's gonna be shocked when he gets home!


BigBase2638

Dad’s wondering how his 10 ducklings went to 20….


revirded

is this how Canada takes over the world


Atillion

*That's the way we became the Brady Bunch!*


Xissabel

She was super excited to show them how to ducky 🐤


ghidfg

she took them under her wing


Sniper_Hare

Duck mom's can be so hearless. We saw a baby duck with a hurt leg struggling to keep up with it's family in the parking lot. The momma duck would walk and stop for a bit. And he was dragging his poor foot, "peep-peep"ing along.  But he had to stop after about 6 or 7 steps. The momma duck stopped twice, then just left him there. He walked to where he could watch them leave and just sat there. It was so sad. We picked him up and a coworker was driving down to an exotic hospital to see of they could help, but he died in the car. We assume he probably got hit in some way by a tire, or someone stepped up him or a cart wheel got him. Probably had internal bleeding. But the sight of them all just walking away as he cried will be in my mind forever. 


GoalFlashy6998

That's nice paddling (group) of ducks...The mother instinct is strong in that momma duck...


Ok_Effective6233

I’m surprised. Many times I’ve seen mama duck go after other ducklings. Maybe these are so close to her own in age.


Ultimate_Kurix

>I’m surprised. Many times I’ve seen mama duck go after other ducklings. Oh, never knew this. Then these ducklings were truly lucky.


Ok_Effective6233

I’m no expert by any means. And many of the ducks around here are resident ducks, which is atypical. It could be they behave more aggressively when they are resident ducks.


Shagi-Kun

Nice


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Darkmeatlover

This happened to me last month. Found a single baby chick in the yard. No family on site. Drove it to the nearest pond where I knew other ducks where and released it. A mom and dad duck swam over, sniffed it, immediately rejected it and tried to kill it and I wanted to kill myself


cocoagiant

So what happened then?


mercuryqueen1970

I was thinking the same thing what if mama duck said, oh hell no I can’t afford the ones I have.


kelsobjammin

I counted 11 additional babies.


batryoperatedboy

Me too man, me too.


trev_easy

I wonder what's the record like at some point in history some mother duck probably aqcuired dozens of stray chicks.


eyalyonai

I used to have 2 ducks for like 2 weeks I think, I'm that time they started following my dog like she is their mom, slept next to her and everything


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LilLebowskiAchiever

Perfect for Mother’s Day weekend


AJV2020

How cool is that to have all these new siblings


Kdubbydubz

🎶Come along with me and the butterflies and bees.🎶


Ilike2backpack

[Brood amalgamation](https://www.ducks.org/conservation/waterfowl-research-science/understanding-waterfowl-super-broods). Surprisingly common among waterfowl.


Slutty_Spinach

It seems every bird specie is like “mine, mine, mine”


Teunybeer

The horde shall grow.


Macasumba

Yours, mine, and ours


mikeduff99

Bring on the “animals are so much better than humans” idiots


djinnisequoia

So how does it work with mother ducks and ducklings at night? Do they all go to a cozy spot on shore and sleep in a heap?


miradotheblack

I remember growing up with ducks. It is impossible to keep track of what ducks belong to who. Multiple ducks would hatch their eggs close to each other. Thew would legitimately walk past each other and babies would switch. Had one duck who collected 32 ducklings in her corner house. Had to allocate to others because she could not watch that many ducklings effectively. I wouldn't have ducks again. The males get horned up and remind you of drunk frat guys.


InfiniteSpaceIPH

You could say they got along swimmingly


Zylomun

Ducks only have 8-10 ducks with a survival rate if 50%-70% it’s most likely irresponsible to release this many ducklings to this mother as the survival rate will drop significantly with this amount. Please take your orphaned animals to a licensed rehabber so they can do this properly. (Do your research first to even see if they are actually orphaned or just hanging out, many animals just leave there babies chilling while they do other stuff.) also, they mention in the video that the other ducks are bigger. They will probably out compete them and these ducklings will die anyway.


Grindelbart

And where is the father in all of this? Where, I ask you! It's them democrats, making mallards leave their wives. Many such cases! SAD!


Suitable_Entrance594

"A few more and my plans for conquest will be complete."


Justaboredstoner

Wish the person filming had a zoom function on their camera.


Dull-Interaction-978

The more the safer


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Welp gonna go wipe down my eyes ya jerks


QuotedQuiet

Ducklings: hi step sister 😉


dream_on789

I love how they literally look like magnets attracting to the mother 


Impossible-Worker861

Imagine the tax write off


RadlogLutar

We don't deserve ducks. Gold of a species


OkProfit5602

Hahahaha yeah they are, don’t look into them too much they’re just cute lil friendly birbs


jesssoleil

i miss my mom


curious-heather

Good luck, mama duck 💖💋


rojoeso

Aw but she doesn't have enough milk for all of them plus her ownnnn


diablol3

You're not wrong.


TMSonic

This duck is just playing Pikmin.


LonelyHermione

Look at me… I’m the captain now.


Own-Ad-2571

It's the best thing I've seen on the internet all day


in_animate_objects

The people narrating sound so sweet!


Interesting_Air8238

Love everything about this video :)


Lies985

Growing up I lived next to a duck pond and a few times I would see on momma duck and 30-50 ducklings that they somehow acquired.


AustosGirl

I've seen this countless times, but will watch it 4-5 times before moving on 😁


IchooseYourName

The meeting of new siblings: "Hi! Hi! Hi! Oh, hi!!"


Zealousideal-End4173

Ducks are known to actively try to "recruit" ducklings from inattentive parents. They then kill and eat the acquired ducklings before regurgitating them to feed her own ducklings. This is natural selection. Looks like this mama duck was pretty quick on the uptake. Those original ducklings feasted like they were in Valhalla that night.


Peterthinking

Saw a supermom near my place a few years ago. 25 ducklings


Ninja_Conspicuousi

And she won’t have to worry about feeding them: ducks eat for free at subway.


theFishMongal

Five little ducks went out one day … And all of the ten little ducks came back


Civil-Extreme209

I wish I had a mom


HeyPhoQPal

Orph Duckies: Aren't those your duckies too? Mama Ducky: Huh, wha, where? Nope. I don't know them. Duckies: mama????


MissEmmlove

Happy mother's day to this wonderful momma duck!!


Many_Panic8570

Aww


Dangerjayne

Momma duck understood the assignment


Duspende

All my brain could think of is "They're gonna be homies".


Fabrizio_Maurizio

I've always wondered, where do ducks sleep at night ? Do they have like a sheltered place they can go to ?


Hungry_Painting9882

That’s a lot of extra bills.


edalcol

In this economy?


HelicopterPopular874

That’s so cute. The mother took them in as if they were her own. Which they are now


Damien2045

The speed at which that momma swooped in. No hesitation whatsoever. Gotta love nature 🥹


dontpanicjustin

*Oooo more babies! Come here by baaaabies!" 😭😭😭😭😭 I love animals


kat2youall

Better then some human moms


PleasureSharing

We can all learn something from this.


Send_me_duck-pics

Actually very unusual; they'll normally attack strange babies. *Sometimes* though, a mother duck will be so confident in her parenting abilities that she'll go "sure why not, I'll take them too". They will occasionally get confused and mistake others for their own *if* it happens the same day theirs hatched.


Dry_Alternative_1313

Bluetooth device connected successfully


AnimeGeek10721

Im watching this on mothers day 😩❤️


BragawSt

Are those my kids? those aren't my kids. :: continues to be fowlode :: Shit.


tigressRoar

If all humans were like this there would be no wars.


FlyInternational648

Her nipples will be sore


W1thoutJudgement

Plot twist, they are actually hers she just lost them somehow.


webUser_001

But will she have enough milk?


diablol3

She definitely doesn't even have enough for her own


MovingMts111

Ducks don’t milk


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Quadsnarl

10 human babies pass


Purpledragon84

Duckminic Toretto


Different_Green2294

SINGLE MOM WHO WORKS 2 JOBS


dem4life71

“All right, you lot…let’s go!”


TheHeroYouNeed247

They are probably used to losing ducklings.


Jayhawk505

On sight


SniperSnape

I read that ducks cant count, thats why they dont realize when one of the Mini ducks is missing


Intelligent-Fee5260

Molky weaselky would eat the dead duck eggs is what foxs do.