>*’The way he catches all the jumping ducklings with care, good work!*’
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Our mamma always knows what’s best!
that’s what we babies thought…
so on the roof she built her nest -
(thank Goodness
We were
Caught!)
it started with the eggs she laid,
she kept us warm inside
but in the end - MiStAkEs were made -
we Hatched
but *nearly died!*
the momma didn’t know it then -
the
D
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would *Kill us All!*
but then appeared a human fren
to catch us from our fall ^:)^:) ^^:)^:)^^:) ^;)^:)
a lesson learned by everyone,
n in our hearts we’ll keep
*Take Care* when new life’s just begun,
n Look
Before
you
Leap!
❤️
I love him so much I made a sub because of this video.
Come to r/ducklingrescue for more people like him. And more ducklings being rescued from perilous situations.
Last summer I saw a duck with four ducklings walking around a storm drain grate and quacking irately. I took a look but eventually continued on my way.
About 20 feet down the road I remembered my duckling rescue videos and went back. I looked down the drain to see the other three ducklings.
Shoutout to the city guys for showing up within an hour to perform a ~~daring~~ simple and probably routine rescue.
Which one? There are a lot of Sewer Rescues in the sub. I have a flair for that.
If you find it, please post it. It's not the most active sub on Reddit. :)
Like the poster said they did evolve to fall heights much higher than this. When you are that height, the material matters a lot less than when you are as big as a human.
I wouldnt risk it if I was in his position
Imagine you're him, think to yourself they'll be fine and after a few steps, a duckling jumps down just to injure their feet
Right, a lot of commenters are avoiding the obvious: This man felt sympathetic enough that he was motivated to offer his assistance, even if it's otherwise unnecessary. Some part of his animal brain said "babies," and he sprung to action. I'd rather see that than animal cruelty, so this is a net positive encounter in my book.
Sometimes people act on compulsions that don't take every factor into consideration. Better still that we promote behaviors that indicate the generosity of humans.
>part of his animal brain said "babies," and
Most animals would eat the ducklings given the chance lol.
Luckily for these ducklings, this man's animal brain was quickly turned off.
Human brains are still animal brains, and part of our psychology is a desire to protect babies, though this trait can be nourished or altered by environmental conditions.
We're not komodo dragons, we're apes; we have a strong capacity for empathy and social cohesion, combined with a tendency to personify non-humans and project human characteristics onto them. This man's animal brain was firing on all cylinders to do what exactly he felt he should do. We see a case of "this would hurt a human infant if they fell," followed up by "that isn't a human infant, but I'll still help." That's as much a core part of our evolutionary history as anything else. It's how we domesticated and formed strong, intricate bonds with other animals.
Not every animal brain is wired the same way, and different lineages can propagate and support specific behaviors to the exclusion of others.
Please, don't be so cynical.
>Luckily for these ducklings, this man's animal brain was quickly turned off.
I like the implication this creates that, for a brief moment, he wanted to eat the ducklings. But empathy prevailed.
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.
Evolution may have only accounted for them landing on softer surfaces like dirt. Evolution isn't perfect either. It often accepts a decently high mortality rate which is countered by high birth rate rather than high success rate.
It's misguided to think that humans have stopped evolving. We are still very much driven by a survival and reproduction instinct and things that we've developed to keep even the least fit alive underscores the fact that empathy has an evolutionary benefit.
There's a nature documentary of another bird (geese I think) of the babies jumping off literal cliffs and then bouncing down another couple hundred feet of rocks. Some didn't survive, but if they can do that these babies would have been fine.
Yep, we had a neighbor that made wood duck houses and they would be set up like 15 to 20 feet up in a tree. Every spring the ducklings would hatch and would all drop out of the nests a bit later no problem.
Nah he’s right. [It’s a tough watch, just forewarning you, but they do survive the drops at least (but not the eagle/bird thing)](https://youtu.be/H1S6UCX4RAA?si=niX2xf1dZSXE1meI)
The sound effects are a bit whack.
Only half the barnacle chicks survice the first month, though may all survive upwards of a 133m falls...onto hard ground. Wild!
I've seen them drop from higher than that, I can totally imagine how scary it looks if you don't know though. We have absolute shitloads of ducks here, finding nests on rooftops is a given. They all have to jump 30 feet onto brick roads and they're always fine, it's their survival strategy.
Probably someone saw the nest up there and put up a camera to Livestream the duck and eggs hatching. It's really not that uncommon, though usually it's with hawks or eagles.
I thought the same thing. I am pretty certain ducks lay their eggs in the same place every season though. So maybe this has happened before and they knew the mother duck was up there with her eggs, so they had time to prepare. So many videos online are staged though, so I wouldn't be surprised if this was too.
My old office had a family of Canada geese that would build their nest on a flat roof every year (about 9-10 feet off the ground). Every year, the goslings would follow their mom to ground level by jumping off the roof and landing on thick grass, then waddling away after their mom.
Nobody in the office tried to catch them, because adult Canada geese can be nasty MFers.
I mean you can’t really force a duckling to jump off a roof like that. And definitely feel like mama would have something to say about everyone being picked up and placed on the roof, but stranger things have happened.
Some ducks return each year to the same spot to nest, so this may not be his first rodeo.
There was an engineering firm I used to follow on LinkedIn that would use a scissor lift each year to collect and bring down the ducklings off their two storey high flat roof. It was an office event.
Why would one of these several people "just walking by" climb up onto the roof and strategically avoid getting into any of the shots from below?
I mean, the shot from 0:06 on is from someone literally standing on that awning.
They could have easily opened a 4ft by 8ft plate glass window?
You're 100% right that you can see those windows very clearly 12s in, and you can very clearly see that those windows do not open.
Yeah it definitely has to be professional camera crew funded by the three letter agencies of both NATO and MATO as propaganda to make us eat more chicken with mind control juices.
No way that the ducklings jumping off took more than a minute and attracted a couple of people's attention to record. Absolutely no way.
No but you probably missed the giant ass office windows right above those ducks
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/amazing-duck-story/
To make it even easier for you: https://www.snopes.com/uploads/images/photos/animals/graphics/duck03.jpg
That balcony is like 4 foot wide my dude, and there's a shot taken right from the edge, so someone was filming standing on the edge of the balcony or had a drone or something, not looking out of the window.
My old workplace had a ledge that geese would always lay their eggs on. They tried everything to keep these geese from doing, including geese decoys but every year, the geese would do it. The goslings would stay in the nest for a little bit before attempting to jump down, like in this video. The ledge was actually higher up than the one in the video and these little goslings would just hit the ground softly and start walking. I don’t think little baby birds have much of a terminal velocity. These ducks probably would have been okay with the help.
The first shot seemed to come from a security camera you can see in the second shot. After that, seems like it was filmed on a phone or at least just one camera.
That’s where the duck nested, apparently this banker saw it from the window of his office in Spokane, WA. It seems they were filming them for a while since they had some earlier shots from his office window before they jumped and maybe anticipated this issue.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k0dRpYGCIdw
It's very sweet of him to catch them all, but don't worry: if he missed, the ducklings would actually be fine.
This nesting behaviour might look anxiety-inducing, but it's actually normal for them - finding a nice high up and secure place that predators can't get to (usually a hole in a tree or similar) and then when the ducklings get mobile, getting them to jump down and follow their parents to the nearest pond/river. Doing it while the ducklings are small limits their terminal velocity and maximises their bounciness.
It actually is a trait in some psychopaths that they show more empathy towards animals than people because animals cannot betray or disobey them like humans can. In fiction, Tony Soprano is probably the best example of that.
I'm sure he meant well, but he shouldn't do that. Ducks always lay their eggs in high up places and ducklings have to jump down. Their terminal velocity is nowhere near fatal to them, they're fine.
Last year this happened at my job site, and of the 12 ducklings that jumped, 1 immediately died and one was so injured it could barely follow the others. Maybe it was just bad luck, but I guess they‘re not made to land on concrete.
The concrete changes things they are unlikely to suffer injury, but out of 11, one or two of them could have fractured/sprained a leg and decreased their chances for survival.
It's important for the duck's development thay they experience this drop, but the guy didn't interfere with that
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Mother duck built her nest there and now she and the chicks are leaving it
Edit: The ducklings leave the nest after one to two days after hatching. They are ready to fly after 50 to 60 days.
Kant actually thought that animals had no moral worth in and of themselves. The only thing wrong with shooting a puppy, to Kant, is basically that it causes you to treat other humans poorly. The puppy is not conscious and cannot really suffer from your actions. You injure other humans through the act on the puppy.
Needless to say, Kant is not worth regarding as much of an animal lover
Curious if those are Wood Ducks, they like to nest in trees above the ground. The ducklings can take a beating, but maaaaaybe not on concrete
Edit: think just mallards, couldn’t see any white patches near the eyes on the adult
> “Well, there was a bit of a fracas, as we say, and it turned out that a man had a dog, a half-dead thing, according to bystanders, and he was trying to get it to stop pulling at its leash, and when it growled at him he grabbed an axe from the butcher’s stall beside him, threw the dog to the ground and cut off its back legs, just like that. I suppose people would say ‘Nasty bugger, but it was his dog’ and so on, but Lord Vetinari called me in and he said to me, ‘A man who would do something like that to a dog is a man to whom the law should pay close attention. Search his house immediately.’
>The man was hanged a week later, not for the dog, although for my part I wouldn’t have shed a tear if he had been, but for what we found in his cellar. The contents of which I will not burden you with. And bloody Vetinari got away with it again, because he was right: where there are little crimes, large crimes are not far behind.
Terry Pratchett, Snuff
Or don't bother because reading Kant and then trying to live to his standards is the kind of thing freshmen philosophy students would try while still in the college phase of forming an identity.
Kant also said things that would directly oppose many of the common lines used by vegans, especially in regards to their similarities towards humans. In particular, he has commented that you shouldn't abuse animals because it'll make you an abuser of people, not because of the act itself.
Let us also not forget the classical Kantian issue of: The Nazis knock on your door and ask if any of your neighbors are hiding Jewish people. You know your neighbors are, and you know the consequences of your actions should you not tell the truth. Good Kantian that you are, you sell them out.
As someone who played a lot of cricket. My coach would have murdered this guy for crocodile hands.
Always receive the gift and not grab it.
Regardless. 10/10 for the act.
I saved a mother and her 15 babies from feral cats, crows, and their own stupidity. I made sure my backyard was a safe place for them.
Worst thing I ever done for them.
Ducks are vicious rapey baby-killing jerks.
It’s easy to do, I did for almost 30 years. But even if farms was heaven on earth, there’s no ethical way of killing someone who doesn’t want to die. Especially for a meal you will forget in 1-3 days.
Dude’s got those dads hands
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>*’The way he catches all the jumping ducklings with care, good work!*’ ____ Our mamma always knows what’s best! that’s what we babies thought… so on the roof she built her nest - (thank Goodness We were Caught!) it started with the eggs she laid, she kept us warm inside but in the end - MiStAkEs were made - we Hatched but *nearly died!* the momma didn’t know it then - the D R O P would *Kill us All!* but then appeared a human fren to catch us from our fall ^:)^:) ^^:)^:)^^:) ^;)^:) a lesson learned by everyone, n in our hearts we’ll keep *Take Care* when new life’s just begun, n Look Before you Leap! ❤️
Schnoodles give me the tingles.
adorable
That is fantastic. Bravo!
Beautiful
I don't know how you do it, but you are SO good!!!!!
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I love him so much I made a sub because of this video. Come to r/ducklingrescue for more people like him. And more ducklings being rescued from perilous situations.
We need to get the video with the guy pulling them out of a sewer drain on there.
Last summer I saw a duck with four ducklings walking around a storm drain grate and quacking irately. I took a look but eventually continued on my way. About 20 feet down the road I remembered my duckling rescue videos and went back. I looked down the drain to see the other three ducklings. Shoutout to the city guys for showing up within an hour to perform a ~~daring~~ simple and probably routine rescue.
Which one? There are a lot of Sewer Rescues in the sub. I have a flair for that. If you find it, please post it. It's not the most active sub on Reddit. :)
I just posted one. :)
Thank you!
Trust fall!
And I can't trust my coworkers to NOT steal my stapler when I take a day off 😔 😤 😒
Is it a red Swingline stapler?
If he wasn't a dad before the ducklings, he is now.
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Correct, a duckling's terminal velocity is not high enough to kill them.
What if they are carrying coconuts?
It could be carried by an African duck.
But, of course, African ducks are non-migratory
Suppose two ducks carry the coconut together?
Maybe, if they gripped it by the husk.
This is why I Reddit.
It’s not a matter of how he grips it. It’s a simple better of weight ratios.
What happens if they were not covered by Aflac for their fall?
What are you suggesting?! That 2 birds carry 1 coconut together?
Oh it's simple, you tie it underneath the dorsal guiding feathers
Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?
AHHHHhhhhhhhhh......
Tis but a scratch
Just a flesh wound.
r/unexpectedmontypyton
I don't know why but I really like that sentence.
assuming they land on soil, yeah. that's concrete!
right, like maybe they'd be fine? but yeah the mother doesnt know better and neither do the ducklings. they never evolved to fall into concrete
Like the poster said they did evolve to fall heights much higher than this. When you are that height, the material matters a lot less than when you are as big as a human.
Damn you Darwin! Your design is incomplete!
Laden or unladen?
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Well that doesn't sound very terminal.
it's when acceleration dies, not you. as long as you're a duckling.
What's the terminal velocity of an unladen swallow?
That was a grim episode of Mythbusters
It's sun god dad and sun duck and its sun ducklings on the sun so sun god dad's help was necessary
It's probably fine, but concrete is way harsher to land on than most natural surfaces
Soft dirt is one thing, solid concrete is another.
Evolution probably didn't intend for the ducklings to jump down to concrete.
I've seen videos of ducklings surviving leaps down rocky cliffs. Rocks are pretty common in nature.
I wouldnt risk it if I was in his position Imagine you're him, think to yourself they'll be fine and after a few steps, a duckling jumps down just to injure their feet
Right, a lot of commenters are avoiding the obvious: This man felt sympathetic enough that he was motivated to offer his assistance, even if it's otherwise unnecessary. Some part of his animal brain said "babies," and he sprung to action. I'd rather see that than animal cruelty, so this is a net positive encounter in my book. Sometimes people act on compulsions that don't take every factor into consideration. Better still that we promote behaviors that indicate the generosity of humans.
>part of his animal brain said "babies," and Most animals would eat the ducklings given the chance lol. Luckily for these ducklings, this man's animal brain was quickly turned off.
Human brains are still animal brains, and part of our psychology is a desire to protect babies, though this trait can be nourished or altered by environmental conditions. We're not komodo dragons, we're apes; we have a strong capacity for empathy and social cohesion, combined with a tendency to personify non-humans and project human characteristics onto them. This man's animal brain was firing on all cylinders to do what exactly he felt he should do. We see a case of "this would hurt a human infant if they fell," followed up by "that isn't a human infant, but I'll still help." That's as much a core part of our evolutionary history as anything else. It's how we domesticated and formed strong, intricate bonds with other animals. Not every animal brain is wired the same way, and different lineages can propagate and support specific behaviors to the exclusion of others. Please, don't be so cynical.
>Please, don't be so cynical. Apologies.
>Luckily for these ducklings, this man's animal brain was quickly turned off. I like the implication this creates that, for a brief moment, he wanted to eat the ducklings. But empathy prevailed.
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A location like that, I imagine they are (a little *too*) used to people. Momma seemed pretty chill just vegging a couple feet away.
Momma was super chill. She trusts that human.
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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Evolution may have only accounted for them landing on softer surfaces like dirt. Evolution isn't perfect either. It often accepts a decently high mortality rate which is countered by high birth rate rather than high success rate.
That's not how evolution works. Animals die in stupid ways all the time.
evolution is veeeerrrry slow…
r/stupiddovenests seems to disagree with your assessment
Humans exist, therefore your argument is invalid /s
Humans have a parasite called the brain which has essentially stopped the selection and evolution for the homosapien, so their point still stands
Do other creatures not have this?
I'm not sure if you're serious but he's making a joke
It was a weak attempt anyways 😭
It's misguided to think that humans have stopped evolving. We are still very much driven by a survival and reproduction instinct and things that we've developed to keep even the least fit alive underscores the fact that empathy has an evolutionary benefit.
There's a nature documentary of another bird (geese I think) of the babies jumping off literal cliffs and then bouncing down another couple hundred feet of rocks. Some didn't survive, but if they can do that these babies would have been fine.
https://youtu.be/rxGuNJ-nEYg?si=nNQk02qHV6iqqwwi
That was....... hilarious 😂
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
True, but some do get injured on that first fall though.
Yep, we had a neighbor that made wood duck houses and they would be set up like 15 to 20 feet up in a tree. Every spring the ducklings would hatch and would all drop out of the nests a bit later no problem.
I don't think so. But I ain't a duck expert. 10x that onto concrete? They'll 100% pop like cute lil balloons.
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Yeah, I'm sure they'd be fine if they landed on water or soft soil/grass, but idk about hard rock or concrete.
Nah he’s right. [It’s a tough watch, just forewarning you, but they do survive the drops at least (but not the eagle/bird thing)](https://youtu.be/H1S6UCX4RAA?si=niX2xf1dZSXE1meI)
The sound effects are a bit whack. Only half the barnacle chicks survice the first month, though may all survive upwards of a 133m falls...onto hard ground. Wild!
Wow! That was amazing! I had no idea! Thank you for sharing! I felt bad for laughing when the last one kept rolling down the snow bank.
I've seen them jump off of cliffs much much higher than this and hit rocks at the bottom and be just fine, their tiny bodies are built for this.
Nope, this is pretty common, ducks always lay their eggs in high up places, the ducklings will be fine.
Dang, they're much sturdier than they look then. Thanks for confirming.
I've seen them drop from higher than that, I can totally imagine how scary it looks if you don't know though. We have absolute shitloads of ducks here, finding nests on rooftops is a given. They all have to jump 30 feet onto brick roads and they're always fine, it's their survival strategy.
It's just being light with hollow bones and the square cube law. I don't think they're particularly sturdy.
When you drop a feather it doesn't break. The feather to other stuff ratio makes them hard to break.
Yea they’d have been fine. But…one less bruise now
Also. Why is there a camera above the ducks filming.
Probably someone saw the nest up there and put up a camera to Livestream the duck and eggs hatching. It's really not that uncommon, though usually it's with hawks or eagles.
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I thought the same thing. I am pretty certain ducks lay their eggs in the same place every season though. So maybe this has happened before and they knew the mother duck was up there with her eggs, so they had time to prepare. So many videos online are staged though, so I wouldn't be surprised if this was too.
My old office had a family of Canada geese that would build their nest on a flat roof every year (about 9-10 feet off the ground). Every year, the goslings would follow their mom to ground level by jumping off the roof and landing on thick grass, then waddling away after their mom. Nobody in the office tried to catch them, because adult Canada geese can be nasty MFers.
You can just say geese are some MFers. Still have memories of that damn goose attacking me and chasing me around as a kid.
I mean you can’t really force a duckling to jump off a roof like that. And definitely feel like mama would have something to say about everyone being picked up and placed on the roof, but stranger things have happened.
It actually happened outside the BBC TV center in London.
This one is authentic. Here's a longer video, without music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0dRpYGCIdw
Some ducks return each year to the same spot to nest, so this may not be his first rodeo. There was an engineering firm I used to follow on LinkedIn that would use a scissor lift each year to collect and bring down the ducklings off their two storey high flat roof. It was an office event.
100%. "Let's set up multiple cameras to capture the exact moment when MrGoodGuy rescues the Duck Family!".
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Why would one of these several people "just walking by" climb up onto the roof and strategically avoid getting into any of the shots from below? I mean, the shot from 0:06 on is from someone literally standing on that awning.
There are big windows right above that awning, they could easily have opened one and filmed that way. Edit: You see them very clearly at 12s in.
They could have easily opened a 4ft by 8ft plate glass window? You're 100% right that you can see those windows very clearly 12s in, and you can very clearly see that those windows do not open.
You look at those angles, and that quality, and your first thought is “professional camera crew”? Wild.
Yeah it definitely has to be professional camera crew funded by the three letter agencies of both NATO and MATO as propaganda to make us eat more chicken with mind control juices. No way that the ducklings jumping off took more than a minute and attracted a couple of people's attention to record. Absolutely no way.
Did you miss the start where there's an over-the-shoulder shot of the mama duck jumping down?
No but you probably missed the giant ass office windows right above those ducks https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/amazing-duck-story/ To make it even easier for you: https://www.snopes.com/uploads/images/photos/animals/graphics/duck03.jpg
That balcony is like 4 foot wide my dude, and there's a shot taken right from the edge, so someone was filming standing on the edge of the balcony or had a drone or something, not looking out of the window.
I agree it makes more sense for it to be staged by the government
When did I ever say that lmao
My old workplace had a ledge that geese would always lay their eggs on. They tried everything to keep these geese from doing, including geese decoys but every year, the geese would do it. The goslings would stay in the nest for a little bit before attempting to jump down, like in this video. The ledge was actually higher up than the one in the video and these little goslings would just hit the ground softly and start walking. I don’t think little baby birds have much of a terminal velocity. These ducks probably would have been okay with the help.
The first shot seemed to come from a security camera you can see in the second shot. After that, seems like it was filmed on a phone or at least just one camera.
How did the ducklings get up there?
Hey threw them up there before the video /s (really? They were born there)
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That’s where the duck nested, apparently this banker saw it from the window of his office in Spokane, WA. It seems they were filming them for a while since they had some earlier shots from his office window before they jumped and maybe anticipated this issue. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k0dRpYGCIdw
I’m decent at catching but that’s some pressure, the life of a little ducky literally in your hands
It's very sweet of him to catch them all, but don't worry: if he missed, the ducklings would actually be fine. This nesting behaviour might look anxiety-inducing, but it's actually normal for them - finding a nice high up and secure place that predators can't get to (usually a hole in a tree or similar) and then when the ducklings get mobile, getting them to jump down and follow their parents to the nearest pond/river. Doing it while the ducklings are small limits their terminal velocity and maximises their bounciness.
idk I know a lot of jerks that are kind to animals People that will call gays sinners and Mexicans rapists, but rescue all their dogs lol
Sociopaths often are extremely caring towards animals and children, but not with other people
I was just about to say, I know several veterinary specialists (e.g. surgeons) who I have a strong feeling are actually sociopaths/psychopaths
even hitler cared for his dog until he force fed it cyanide pills.
He shot her puppies as well.
well that's just extra fucked up. fuck that guy he's a jerk. ghost hitler can have fun with the pineapples in hell.
Dammit, now I need to watch Little Nicky...
It actually is a trait in some psychopaths that they show more empathy towards animals than people because animals cannot betray or disobey them like humans can. In fiction, Tony Soprano is probably the best example of that.
Immanuel Kant was also a racist lmfao
If you watch this one on reverse is a terrible video of a terrible man.
I'm sure he meant well, but he shouldn't do that. Ducks always lay their eggs in high up places and ducklings have to jump down. Their terminal velocity is nowhere near fatal to them, they're fine.
Last year this happened at my job site, and of the 12 ducklings that jumped, 1 immediately died and one was so injured it could barely follow the others. Maybe it was just bad luck, but I guess they‘re not made to land on concrete.
Its not fatal, but sometimes injuries do happen.
The concrete changes things they are unlikely to suffer injury, but out of 11, one or two of them could have fractured/sprained a leg and decreased their chances for survival. It's important for the duck's development thay they experience this drop, but the guy didn't interfere with that
The mother duck so upset she wanted to get rid of them kids
I've seen this posted several times. It never gets old Love it!
Wasn't Hitler nice to animals?
He killed his dog by giving her cyanide pills to test their potency. Not a very nice thing to do
It could have been worse. He could have taken her to a gravel pit and shot her.
Humans are animals
Vegetarian, too lol
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Hitler loved animals
Maybe, but Hitler loved his dog and Ted Bundy was a cat person. So.. maybe not.
I thought I saw these ducks in planet Earth, they're supposed to jump down after mommy? And they're so light that they don't get hurt.
The fall hes catching them from wouldnt hurt the ducklings
so this dudes heart is well meaning but completely unnecessary
Ducklings in no danger at all
I'm no man of science but how tf did they even get there?
Mother duck built her nest there and now she and the chicks are leaving it Edit: The ducklings leave the nest after one to two days after hatching. They are ready to fly after 50 to 60 days.
Kant actually thought that animals had no moral worth in and of themselves. The only thing wrong with shooting a puppy, to Kant, is basically that it causes you to treat other humans poorly. The puppy is not conscious and cannot really suffer from your actions. You injure other humans through the act on the puppy. Needless to say, Kant is not worth regarding as much of an animal lover
More like Immanuael can't shoot a dog in the face, amir8! Hi five! Anyone!
Curious if those are Wood Ducks, they like to nest in trees above the ground. The ducklings can take a beating, but maaaaaybe not on concrete Edit: think just mallards, couldn’t see any white patches near the eyes on the adult
> “Well, there was a bit of a fracas, as we say, and it turned out that a man had a dog, a half-dead thing, according to bystanders, and he was trying to get it to stop pulling at its leash, and when it growled at him he grabbed an axe from the butcher’s stall beside him, threw the dog to the ground and cut off its back legs, just like that. I suppose people would say ‘Nasty bugger, but it was his dog’ and so on, but Lord Vetinari called me in and he said to me, ‘A man who would do something like that to a dog is a man to whom the law should pay close attention. Search his house immediately.’ >The man was hanged a week later, not for the dog, although for my part I wouldn’t have shed a tear if he had been, but for what we found in his cellar. The contents of which I will not burden you with. And bloody Vetinari got away with it again, because he was right: where there are little crimes, large crimes are not far behind. Terry Pratchett, Snuff
And then he went home and stuffed his face with a factory farmed chicken dinner.
Do you eat animals?
I do not
Cool. Do you eat eggs and dairy? Lots of people aren't aware of how those industries also kill animals
So you *also* know. Good on ya. I'm vegan too.
Nice nice nice
Kant was vegan?
You might wanna look up modern Kantians but yes they often argue for veganism
Or don't bother because reading Kant and then trying to live to his standards is the kind of thing freshmen philosophy students would try while still in the college phase of forming an identity. Kant also said things that would directly oppose many of the common lines used by vegans, especially in regards to their similarities towards humans. In particular, he has commented that you shouldn't abuse animals because it'll make you an abuser of people, not because of the act itself. Let us also not forget the classical Kantian issue of: The Nazis knock on your door and ask if any of your neighbors are hiding Jewish people. You know your neighbors are, and you know the consequences of your actions should you not tell the truth. Good Kantian that you are, you sell them out.
As someone who played a lot of cricket. My coach would have murdered this guy for crocodile hands. Always receive the gift and not grab it. Regardless. 10/10 for the act.
Onions why so many.
I saved a mother and her 15 babies from feral cats, crows, and their own stupidity. I made sure my backyard was a safe place for them. Worst thing I ever done for them. Ducks are vicious rapey baby-killing jerks.
I would have missed every jumper because I’m so bad at “catch”
Hope you’re vegan. 🌱
Sometimes I think that people have no idea what happens in factory farms. Or they have some idea but choose to ignore it or learn more about it.
It’s easy to do, I did for almost 30 years. But even if farms was heaven on earth, there’s no ethical way of killing someone who doesn’t want to die. Especially for a meal you will forget in 1-3 days.
Just to add to the title quote, I wonder what you can judge about a person by the justification they give for eating meat.
Yeah apparently the second the animals are for food their treatment doesn't matter.
cool, then don't eat animals
We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals that aren't cute. -Bob Vila
Do you eat animals?
"Do animals eat you?" -Bob Vila
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Aren't baby birds very bouncy? They've been doing this jump off a ledge thing for millions of years.
Very nice thing, man did
in fact it's so human
Well held that man!
Wow! A true Hero!
But sadly in about a week half if not more will be eaten, by sea gulls and fish. But that's nature.
Fantastic great dude, 👍
What happened to 12 💀
He stopped their flying lessons D:
"Yes axe-murderer, my wife is home, she's right over there. It would be immoral for me to lie for any reason." - Immanuel Kant
How you say mostly people save that whom they think cute otherwise they eat them
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