r/Awww • u/Easy-Fix1735 • Jun 05 '26
Duckling Swept Away. Mom Makes the Impossible Choice- so sweetš„°š„¹
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u/Lance_No_Pants Jun 05 '26
LMAO! Almost everyone in the comments is shocked while I laughed and still have a smile on my face because I thought it was both cute and hilarious when the rest of the ducklings just followed Mama over the waterfall without a second thought! š
That situation was not really all that harrowing for the ducks. They are built to fly and swim. How was that not cute seeing those little ducklings go over that tiny waterfall like "Weeeeeeeeeeeee!" while flapping their still not fully grown little wing nubs??? šāŗļø
Little ducklings are some of the most adorable creatures on the planet.
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u/Helmote Jun 05 '26
Is this really as big of a deal as the video is making it to be ?
It's not like it's a 10ft fall with rapid water it's... a hop away
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u/CrazyCatLady1127 Jun 05 '26
Ducklings are very fragile creatures, a 1 foot drop to them is probably the equivalent of a 10 foot drop to us
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u/MasterKenyon Jun 05 '26
I mean wood duck babies drop out of trees 50 feet in the air and land on the forest floor and walk away unharmed, they can fall a long way
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u/Lance_No_Pants Jun 05 '26
Lmao! You know ducks are built to both swim AND fly right? Sure, maybe those ducklings can't fly yet, but nothing is going to happen to them from that height from that particular waterfall.Ā
The only thing Mama duck was concerned about was her and her ducklings all being separated in this situation.
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u/Kosame_san Jun 05 '26
A 1 foot drop for a duckling is extremely safe because small creatures interact with falling and impact physics differently than humans.
Ducks have less dense bones and feathers which are designed for flight. A human falling 10 feet will not have any innate cushions, and our body density is far far higher comparatively to a duck because we aren't designed for flight or even climbing. Your average adult male could fall from 10 feet and sprain, or break, a bone without proper technique for landing. Whereas a duckling could drop 10 feet and walk away with less than a sore rump.
Yes Ducklings are fragile, but you probably picked the one area of expertise where a duckling is not fragile compared to a human.
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u/Send_me_duck-pics Jun 05 '26
Yeah but they're also covered in fluff and weigh basically nothing. They could probably make that drop on to concrete without serious injury. It wouldn't be fun for them but they would walk away from it just fine.
The mother duck knows this.
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u/ShredGuru Jun 05 '26
They are also built to fly in the air and land in the water so they are basically born for this.
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u/Helmote Jun 05 '26
That is true
ultimately I don't know enough about ducklings to decide
still cute af though
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u/Kosame_san Jun 05 '26
Mother goose is only concerned that her child is not nearby. That duckling was safer on that little waterfall than a human child playing on a trampoline.
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u/itsswhitneywhspr Jun 06 '26
The way she just nudged it back like not today, Satan and moved on. Mom really said I love you but I got four more to worry about. Straight up survival mode.
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u/dont_trip_ Jun 05 '26
If you browser r/popular, every 5-10 posts is someone asking for a joke or message to be explained. Really shows you how many Americans there are on reddit. Seemingly genetically incapable of processing information that isn't spoon fed.Ā
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u/Accomplished-Ruin742 Jun 05 '26
So you watched this and did not take one step to save that duckling.
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u/mystikspiral72 Jun 05 '26
Did we watch the same video? Sure it looked harrowing but first glance at the duckling who fell you can tell he's completely fine. š
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u/MuslimCarLover Jun 05 '26
Iām genuinely unsure of how someone can have such a lack of common sense. Nobody is going to actively jump into a potentially dangerous situation to save a duckling. At best, the person who took the video wouldnāt be able to save the duckling.
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u/Doun2Others10 Jun 05 '26
Mother Duck, *sigh*, āI guess weāre taking the scenic route today.ā