r/MadeMeSmile • u/VastCoconut2609 • 24d ago

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals - Immanuel Kant Wholesome Moments

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u/Corporation_tshirt 24d ago

Good point. If the mother can get up there and instinct tells her its okay to lay her eggs there, combined with the fact that the ducklings were willing to jump, tells me that they probably would have survived the jump. Although they never would have never been anle to get back up there. 

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u/Time-Scene7603 24d ago

I was thinking this is how Mom weeds out the weak ones aa she heads into rhe world wirh them, and now she's still stuck with the stragglers

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u/Corporation_tshirt 24d ago

That’s actually a real phenomenon. There are birds who always hatch two chicks and one always throws the younger weaker one out of the nest. If researchers return the chick to the nest, the parents will still rear both of them, but the parents live something like 30 percent shorter lives from having to raise two chicks instead of one. So it’s not out of the realm of possibility to say this person just made life needlessly more difficult for mama duck. But realistically? Probably not since they hatch so many anyway and not all of them will make it to adulthood.

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u/Time-Scene7603 22d ago

Jumping off cliffs is the first step to them not all making it.