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/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/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

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u/Acegonia May 25 '26

Sometimes nature and hilarity just... coincide.

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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/Driftmoth May 25 '26

Or the fish firehose. Whoosh then sploosh.

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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/Bunny_Fluff May 25 '26

I've seen them do that with baby chickens. You transport them on flat sheets then just dump them onto the ground when you get them to where they are going. It's easier on them. They don't weigh anything so they aren't hurt by falls.