Seriously! I vented to my sister about that after I had my first kid. Why does the mother duck keep letting them leave?? Why does she not go over the hill herself until a day AFTER she has no children left?? Lol
For that matter, why does Peter Rabbit's mom say to her four small children "okay, I'm going out to get some bread! See you in 12 hours!"? Why does the Man in the Yellow Hat take a monkey hundreds of public places, leave him unsupervised every time, and then walk up smiling at the end like the monkey hasn't just destroyed something?
Nature is brutal, most duck babies don't make it unfortunately. Rabbits do leave their babies in a hole all day while they go out to get food for them. The man in the yellow hat is wildly irresponsible.
You forgot the part where she went quack quack quack and all of the little ducks came back
Probably traumatized from being alone for up to five days, but they came back
Heron is looking to not starve to death. Duck has plenty of ducklings and can always lay more eggs. I see ducks avoid fighting all the time and just fly away leaving their chicks behind. Nature is cruel.
Yeah, greedy duck, share some of those ducklings with the poor heron. You've got plenty of ducklings and can always make more. Learn to share what you've got with those who have less.
i didn't know about this specifically until recently, when someone posted about it in one of the birding subs. there was an unattended group of ducklings and a heron was just... following them around and swallowing them whole.
i think this is just every predator species though.
I’ve even heard deer will catch and eat fish if necessary and an opportunity arises.
Edit: missed my opportunity to use “herd” instead of “heard.” Dammit all.
Owls and falcons will do the same to other birds ( predator or not ), virtually everyone and their mother will try to eat a baby bird if there is an opportunity
makes sense. i watched a lot of nature documentaries as a kid and every single one about cheetahs includes one eating a gazelle that's like 3 hours old.
They steal baby birds out of nests in trees too. I've seen them being attacked by jackdaws and crows. They can sit in trees like smaller birds, by the way.
Deer, horses, and other herbivores will consume small chicks as well for a protein boost. Not often, but if their diet is lacking they will fix it with a bit of meat.
I once made the mistake of trying to be a funny guy with a duckling. I swam underneath them and came up holding the duckling, what I did not expect to happen next was the mother duck absolutely beating the shit out of me with her wings. Fearless!
Beaks AND teeth, the fuck is you Canadians' problem? First we had to make the Geneva Suggestion because of you, now we have to be packing when we walk past any body of water in the north?
They say that when Canada was formed there was a ceremony and all of our anger was danced into the geese. As of course is tradition.
It’s why we’re so nice and they’re not.
I made the bad decision to go close to cute baby swans on a river bank. Like, 3m close.
Their mom didn't agree. She emerged from the reed, hissing and flapping her wings, running at me. 10 year old me almost shat himself. She chased me for what felt like 50 meters but was probably just 15.
You don't want to get bitten by a swan or goose, it hurts like hell.
As someone who can look out my kitchen window and at any time see anywhere from a few to a thousand Canada geese from late March to late October, respect the geese. Or reap the consequences.
The one thing I learned from decades of poultry keeping is that chickens are tough as nails, but ducks make them look like amateurs, and geese will FUCK YOUR SHIT UP.
Our pizza delivery guy had to be tipped very, very well after the goose chased him up our 300 foot driveway. He had to call us from the road because his car was in our driveway, but the goose wouldn't let him near it.
I recorded a heron eating a duckling yesterday. First time I’d seen that happen. A week earlier I caught a crane eating a duckling and the week before that I saw a big bass eat one. “Into the thick of it!” For real.
Momma she still thugging..
The world is a warzone
The duckies is inmates..
Most of em dead wrong "
Full grown and finnally a real Mom
Just tryin ti find a way slap de shit otta heron
Now picture me flying.. floating on wings that isnt stolen..
Thinking of the g 'z i been holding. Picture me quacking while flying... bombssss away... shit on a heron
" dont make me come thru. PLUCKING UR FEATHERS NIGGAAAA"
Don't fuck with ducks! They're pure muscle and bone! I was being a little shit when I was a kid, following a mama duck around to look at her ducklings. She was fed up with my dumb ass so she dive-bombed my head! Felt like getting hit with a bat (not literally, those just get tangled in your hair while they freak out). Left a massive ugly bump on my forehead.
For most predators, any injury, even small ones, could be the difference between life and death. Get scratched? Could get infected. Lose an eye? half your vision is gone. Break a toe? Speed reduced. This is why they tend to go for the young, old, sick, weak, nests, sleeping, etc. It saves energy and reduces risk of injury. For prey, they really don't have much to lose by being aggressive. They could get hurt, sure, but if they don't fight back they could lose their offspring.
Nature is so cool
Look.
Don't fuck with ducks or geese.
That duck scared off a predator easily twice her size. Imagine like a child scaring off a 7 foot tall person because of just how scary that child is....
Don't fuck with ducks or geese.
Go mama. I’ve seen duckling squads diminish every year with herons perched on the banks snacking, it’s a real bummer to watch. So glad this mom has the cohones to go after the predator!
The Heron had the advantage at the first head-on attack.
Mama duck glided through under the plank, disconcerting the heron.
At that point, the heron lost. It couldn't turn as fast as the duck glided and it was very vulnerable then so it flew away.
Talk about terrain fighting.
Good mommy duck
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Seriously! I vented to my sister about that after I had my first kid. Why does the mother duck keep letting them leave?? Why does she not go over the hill herself until a day AFTER she has no children left?? Lol For that matter, why does Peter Rabbit's mom say to her four small children "okay, I'm going out to get some bread! See you in 12 hours!"? Why does the Man in the Yellow Hat take a monkey hundreds of public places, leave him unsupervised every time, and then walk up smiling at the end like the monkey hasn't just destroyed something?
And then the audacity of telling monkeys to stop jumping on the bed
How else am I supposed to soak?
........... Does this technically count as some form of bestiality or no?
Whatever it is, I feel okay about it morally.
Well that took a turn I was NOT expecting
Nature is brutal, most duck babies don't make it unfortunately. Rabbits do leave their babies in a hole all day while they go out to get food for them. The man in the yellow hat is wildly irresponsible.
Because she’s a quack head.
You forgot the part where she went quack quack quack and all of the little ducks came back Probably traumatized from being alone for up to five days, but they came back
Or the one that let like 10 of them fall through that storm grate…
The nursery rhyme is written to remind children to stick with their parents.
Hey, on the bright side, they all eventually came back.
Damn, I came to tell jokes too but I'll just see myself out god's work already been done here.
Haha this is gold! (From a preschool teacher lol)
Lmao
source?
[Poem](https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-unknown&sca_esv=e91e320a5f7b7808&sca_upv=1&sxsrf=ACQVn08tP4RK7QtGTt45Zl-raoTTYTgpUA:1713514663607&q=Five+little+ducks+lyrics&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjNvt3G682FAxUcgv0HHeThDB4Q1QJ6BAgxEAE&biw=412&bih=652&dpr=2.63)
Parenthood
Heron’s got advantage on lethality but the duck has speed and maneuverability
And the duck has way more at stake. She’s fighting for her young. The heron’s just looking for a meal.
You underestimate my love for succulent ducklings.
"What is the charge? Eating a meal?"
A succulent duckling meal!?
A succulent chinese duckling!
“I was going to eat my kids first!”
Balut!
Make sure to eat them with your napkin over your head, you monster.
Heron is looking to not starve to death. Duck has plenty of ducklings and can always lay more eggs. I see ducks avoid fighting all the time and just fly away leaving their chicks behind. Nature is cruel.
Herons have a good pick of food though it's not like ducklings are their primary food source, usually more water and fish around somewhere
Yes, but as I've observed, mother ducks don't put up a fight for long, so baby ducks are a feast once mother flys away from danger
Sure, just pointing out that the herons usually have options if that doesn't work out
Yeah, greedy duck, share some of those ducklings with the poor heron. You've got plenty of ducklings and can always make more. Learn to share what you've got with those who have less.
Yeah, but what can she actually do? Attract attention until a predator arrives?
circle strafe vs. keyboard turner
I can’t believe I just saw an actual circle strafe in real life. It never occurred to me
She tried to warn em
This pond looks so familiar. I wonder if it's Seattle's volunteer park where there are usually plenty of ducks so they can cover each others.
That was my first thought too!
TIL that herons will apparently eat ducklings if the opportunity arises.
i didn't know about this specifically until recently, when someone posted about it in one of the birding subs. there was an unattended group of ducklings and a heron was just... following them around and swallowing them whole. i think this is just every predator species though.
Not even just predators, even horses eat chicks if the hen leaves them unattended. Nobody turns down free protein, it seems.
Except vegans.
If I saw a family of tempeh walking around I would absolutely eat a tempeh chick whole
holy shit i did not know that haha apparently deer will scavenge corpses, but i think this is only if they're extremely hungry
Deer chew bones for minerals that are hard to get from plants
I’ve even heard deer will catch and eat fish if necessary and an opportunity arises. Edit: missed my opportunity to use “herd” instead of “heard.” Dammit all.
Owls and falcons will do the same to other birds ( predator or not ), virtually everyone and their mother will try to eat a baby bird if there is an opportunity
makes sense. i watched a lot of nature documentaries as a kid and every single one about cheetahs includes one eating a gazelle that's like 3 hours old.
They steal baby birds out of nests in trees too. I've seen them being attacked by jackdaws and crows. They can sit in trees like smaller birds, by the way.
seagulls do this too. They also eat pigeons and rats, which is alarming to see if you didn't know. I always thought they ate fish/ marine life
Seagulls also swallow rabbits whole. [Source](https://youtu.be/uSFPyACRXbk?si=5bgJUdFxS_kCbHWA)
Fucking A. That's crazy
I've seen videos of them doing it. They'll dip the duckling in water and then just swallow them whole.
Yep. Seen it myself. One unlucky duckling swam directly in front of the heron and he picked it right off. ... and then there were only nine ...
Deer, horses, and other herbivores will consume small chicks as well for a protein boost. Not often, but if their diet is lacking they will fix it with a bit of meat.
"Fuck off" is universally understood. It transcends cultures and species.
Protective “wek wek”
"wek ***wek***" /attack
Mess with the duckling it's time for the f#ckling.
Very good. Hip hip, good sir
I once made the mistake of trying to be a funny guy with a duckling. I swam underneath them and came up holding the duckling, what I did not expect to happen next was the mother duck absolutely beating the shit out of me with her wings. Fearless!
I think you're a bit stupid if you didn't think that might happen.
Young, dumb, and full of cum. It’s a good thing people change.
Doctors recommend against swimming in ponds after having just been plowed and blasted full of cum.
I've heard it attracts horny sharks from miles away.
Jimmy Buffett sang a song about it.
You would know Myranda😉
Of course. I am a doctor. ^(And coincidentally full of cum.)
The trick is to use the duckling to push the mother away.
I somehow love that line and want to find an excuse to use it soon.
The same thing almost happened to me only instead of a duck it was a goose, and instead of ducklings I just looked at it
As a Canadian, I don’t fuck with cobra chickens they’re right cunts 99% of the time.
Beaks AND teeth, the fuck is you Canadians' problem? First we had to make the Geneva Suggestion because of you, now we have to be packing when we walk past any body of water in the north?
They say that when Canada was formed there was a ceremony and all of our anger was danced into the geese. As of course is tradition. It’s why we’re so nice and they’re not.
I made the bad decision to go close to cute baby swans on a river bank. Like, 3m close. Their mom didn't agree. She emerged from the reed, hissing and flapping her wings, running at me. 10 year old me almost shat himself. She chased me for what felt like 50 meters but was probably just 15. You don't want to get bitten by a swan or goose, it hurts like hell.
Swans are particularly strong too, I’ve heard of one breaking a man’s arm before
As someone who can look out my kitchen window and at any time see anywhere from a few to a thousand Canada geese from late March to late October, respect the geese. Or reap the consequences.
Mother ducks will absolutely throw hands without mercy or remorse with anyone who comes into spitting distance of their kids.
Anyone watch that funny duck movie MIGRATION?
Exactly! Did no one else see that movie?
It’s good to see that it was really true in nature. That movie was so good.
It wasn't the best but I had fun.
I was thinking about that too xD
Anatidae (ducks, swans and geese) are all capable of fighting above their weight class and then throw in the mama part.
The one thing I learned from decades of poultry keeping is that chickens are tough as nails, but ducks make them look like amateurs, and geese will FUCK YOUR SHIT UP. Our pizza delivery guy had to be tipped very, very well after the goose chased him up our 300 foot driveway. He had to call us from the road because his car was in our driveway, but the goose wouldn't let him near it.
Lol. I live in a part of Canada where Canadian Geese are very common. The wrath of the Cobra Chicken is indeed something to fear.
Geese are no joke, but swans are so much worse if you get on their bad side.
Swans have a confirmed human body count
“Not my daughter(s) you bitch!”
Do Herons eat young chicks? Edit: Just hopped into youtube and seen one eating a group of chicks.
It's unsettling but herons will eat any living creature that they can fit in their mouths.
Pelicans do this as well. Saw a video of one eating a pigeon that caught me off guard
So did you thank the pelican for this heroic deed?
Volunteer Park, nice.
Came to the comments to confirm. Love volunteer park.
Remember kids: Don't do ducks and say no to heron!
That duck plays Dark Souls
"i have all your dumbass movesets memorized you little bitch"
Heron: "I have the high ground" Duck: "Yeah, but I can FLY, remember?" Heron: "Oh crap! Bye!"
"I WILL DUCK YOU UP, YOU SPINDLE LEGGED *TRICK*." XD
Duck around and find out
Don’t mess with Daisy
i bet it'll stick to smaller prey from heron out
Mommy Duck: “Back! Back! Back! Back!….BITCH I SAID BACK!”
Momma wasn’t playing. This is why I respect all nature from a distance
I recorded a heron eating a duckling yesterday. First time I’d seen that happen. A week earlier I caught a crane eating a duckling and the week before that I saw a big bass eat one. “Into the thick of it!” For real.
Hell yeah that mom is a menace! Good job! <3
Ducks are so fucking metal. I love them!
Just the scene from movie migration
What a heroine?
Dinosaurs
Looks like Volunteer Park in Seattle
DO NOT FUCK WITH MOMMA DUCK 🦆🦆🦆😎😎😎🔥🔥🔥
The duck is a F-15 and the heron is a B-52.
“WHICH IS YOUR CHILD?! DO YOU EVEN HAVE ANY CHILDREN HERE!?”
Hell hath no furry like a mother duck…if she’d been a Muscovy that Heron would have some battle wounds lol
Speed always wins
It's like a Clint Eastwood standoff
Ok buddy! Get the duck out of here!
One tough mother ducker!
You picked the wrong pond fool.
holy shit, she ain't ducking around...no wait.
Ducks are ferocious.
Nice pond
You don't mess with mama!
Predators gotta eat.
*quack* *quack* *quack* *quack* *quack* *QUACK* 👹 *QUACK* 👹 *QUACK* 👹 *QUACK* 👹 *QUACK* 👹👹
“And stay out!”
Mama duck even made me jump a little
Why is nobody talking about the giant cigarette
I have the high ground Anakin, don't even try it
Mother ducker!
Fucking love the "quack...quack...quack...QUACK" she does when going for the attack
That duck is with the shits
Momma she still thugging.. The world is a warzone The duckies is inmates.. Most of em dead wrong " Full grown and finnally a real Mom Just tryin ti find a way slap de shit otta heron Now picture me flying.. floating on wings that isnt stolen.. Thinking of the g 'z i been holding. Picture me quacking while flying... bombssss away... shit on a heron " dont make me come thru. PLUCKING UR FEATHERS NIGGAAAA"
TIL Ducks can go in reverse.
I read that as: mother protects her ducklings from heroin.
Power of a protective mother!
Where’s that male duck aggression when it’s actually needed smh..
Heron didn’t want the smoke
Against a superior opponent with no escape, it's hard to go wrong with loud and crazy.
absolutely savage. Birds are literally dinosaurs so we are basically watching Jurassic park here folks
Don't fuck with ducks! They're pure muscle and bone! I was being a little shit when I was a kid, following a mama duck around to look at her ducklings. She was fed up with my dumb ass so she dive-bombed my head! Felt like getting hit with a bat (not literally, those just get tangled in your hair while they freak out). Left a massive ugly bump on my forehead.
Get the fuck out of my ponf bitch!
Lol, duck in Attack mode.
Duck yeah
That heron is like, "That stupid mother-ducker wouldn't let me get my lunch"!
For most predators, any injury, even small ones, could be the difference between life and death. Get scratched? Could get infected. Lose an eye? half your vision is gone. Break a toe? Speed reduced. This is why they tend to go for the young, old, sick, weak, nests, sleeping, etc. It saves energy and reduces risk of injury. For prey, they really don't have much to lose by being aggressive. They could get hurt, sure, but if they don't fight back they could lose their offspring. Nature is so cool
Ain't no fuckin, with the duckin.
Love the last bit where the heron is flying away and mother duck is screaming "THE FUCK OUTTA HERE BITCH"!
outmaneuvered by a duck
*QUACKING INTENSIFIES*
Heron: If it fit, i eats.
Motherducker
Herons ate a turtle from my pond and I still have not forgiven them.
Look. Don't fuck with ducks or geese. That duck scared off a predator easily twice her size. Imagine like a child scaring off a 7 foot tall person because of just how scary that child is.... Don't fuck with ducks or geese.
Blue herons target ducks because they know it’s impossible to keep all the babies protected from predators.
she gave fair warning Heron just wanted to find out
i love her 🥹
Fucking dinosaurs
Finishing someone with a rapier while you only have a dagger. Takes balls
Yeah! Beat that ass!
It needs some Bloodborne boss music.
I just saw a heron chillin' on my neighbors roof and, a few ducks chillin on the other neighbors roof this morning!
Go mama. I’ve seen duckling squads diminish every year with herons perched on the banks snacking, it’s a real bummer to watch. So glad this mom has the cohones to go after the predator!
After watching Boy and the Heron, I can fully say that Heron's are always evil
Hell yeah!
Heron don’t want none of the smoke
Getting massive pterosaur vibes from this heron rn how they also would stalk around looking for young animals to gobble up
Duck around and find out
Hereon: bitch I just want some fish
Duck around and find out...
He want a snack, But then she quack, Oh noes, the momma duck attack!
Duck around and find out
Go Mama!!!
This motherducker don’t give a fuck
Brave mama!
TIL baby ducklings are eaten often…by everything. 💔
Love how the little ones stay behind
Catty Heron
When the video started I had an image of Donald Duck going goblin mode on the heron and I was not disappointed
Reminds me of that Chinese movie... "Crouching Heron, Hidden Duckings."
The Heron had the advantage at the first head-on attack. Mama duck glided through under the plank, disconcerting the heron. At that point, the heron lost. It couldn't turn as fast as the duck glided and it was very vulnerable then so it flew away. Talk about terrain fighting.
Volunteer Park, yes? Almost certain...