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cody the duckling (:

unfortunately (kindof) this photo was taken just after we tried to release him back with a mama duck... only to discover that she clearly wasn't his mama, and she wasn't having a bar of it. intervening just after she tried to break his neck, we decided that wandering from mama duck to mama duck to try and find the right one would probably traumatise/kill him, and so we've rung the spca, so that someone a little more qualified than us can look after him. sad to see him go, but a life cooped up in an apartment with only people for company is not a good life for a duck.

also: anyone who tells me that this is because birds have some sort of supersonic sense of smell and the mama could smell "human" on cody is gonna make me mad. birds do have a sense of smell, but for the typical bird, it's not that spectacular. some birds have better senses of smell than others, but with ducks/chickens/etc, it's pretty average, and the fact that these ducks will actually walk into your apartment if you leave the doors open cuts out any theory that they're afraid of humans. it's just that cody wasn't her baby, and it's probable that his specific cheep was what made her recognise him as not one of her own.

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cody the duckling (:

unfortunately (kindof) this photo was taken just after we tried to release him back with a mama duck... only to discover that she clearly wasn't his mama, and she wasn't having a bar of it. intervening just after she tried to break his neck, we decided that wandering from mama duck to mama duck to try and find the right one would probably traumatise/kill him, and so we've rung the spca, so that someone a little more qualified than us can look after him. sad to see him go, but a life cooped up in an apartment with only people for company is not a good life for a duck.

also: anyone who tells me that this is because birds have some sort of supersonic sense of smell and the mama could smell "human" on cody is gonna make me mad. birds do have a sense of smell, but for the typical bird, it's not that spectacular. some birds have better senses of smell than others, but with ducks/chickens/etc, it's pretty average, and the fact that these ducks will actually walk into your apartment if you leave the doors open cuts out any theory that they're afraid of humans. it's just that cody wasn't her baby, and it's probable that his specific cheep was what made her recognise him as not one of her own.