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A shame that the mother didn't take the babies back, but as Simon said, it's the end of the year and the season could slam right on over to very harsh conditions for such a late batch of ducklings. Maybe the mother duck has been hearing good things from other ducks, about this kind old man, who goes around helping those in need and let you take good care of them over the winter! 😉 She seemed very calm and confident after the release.
Yes it was a great shame. Sadly though the open hostility towards them was the biggest sign that she wasn't going to accept them. On the bright side though, at least these (very late!) ducklings will stay warm and fed through the cold winter :)
Yes, I was wondering if maybe she was a yoing mum but due to having the brood late in the year, maybe she was unsure about them and the stress from the accident and being separated while being cared for also separately caused her to detach from them.. she could see you guys were evidently caring about them better with 5 star treatment than she ever could. Let's hope they can all be reunited when the weather's better and they've grown bigger and stronger too. 🙏✌
When Simon makes that shushing noise, the duck probably thinks he is hissing at her. Great rescue - amazed she recovered. Have put in my vote for your organisation !
Another great rescue. Mum, who looked like she was on death's door, recovered wonderfully and her babies get to be kept nice and warm while they grow up with their human mums. 😊💕🦆
Aw a happy ending to a very sad situation - I can't imagine how upset I'd be if I'd been that driver. Hopefully they're relieved at the recovery of the mom and her ducklings!
I'm only at min 6 but it's so sad to see the mum not remembering her chicks :( but of course the most important thing is to get them all through. thanks for your hard work, eberyone!
I voted before seing the video. What I like about you Simon and all your team is that you explain to us, who are no specialists, exactly what you are doing for the animals. You are really teachers because what is evident for you about a duck is not evident for us. Thank you again and love from France.
I'm glad the mum survived and that 8 babies also lived. It's pretty amazing you managed to find them at night in the bushes. I feel sorry for the man who hit her, he clearly cares about wildlife so I bet he was upset by the situation.
Thank you for helping mummy duck and the babies! 🦆❤️ I was upset when she didn’t take them back, but I’m so glad there is kind people like you to take care of them! 👏❤️ you are angels for animals! 👏👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I'm glad he stopped and helped with the rescue. He is surely a good person. 👍 I understand what happened was an accident, and that the driver wanted to help repair the harm caused by accident. But so many people hit other species and could not be bothered to care enough to stop or help their *victims.* The ones who purposefully do this to other species - Nemesis comes for them, to pay them in full for their evil deeds. But Nemesis also sees the good works done here by *Wildlife Aid* and folks like them, and will bless them as she can. ⚖️🐥🦆💚
It was so sad that 3 ducklings were killed and the mum duck didn't want to take her ducklings back. But it was wonderful that she recovered well enough to be released and that all the remaining 8 ducklings would be in good hands not having to survive the cold winter when they were still so young. Thank you for saving them!
I feared she would have to be put down but when they said she would survive I was happy again. At the end it was so sad that they couldn't be together again. It broke my heart. Thanks to that men that stayed to save them, to the woman who took them to the center and to you for all your work
Awwww, sad some babies were lost. Sad she didn’t mother up with the survivors. But, glad she’s all better and her existing babies should be okay. Kudos to the man who stopped after hitting them. He could have not gave a $&@&$& and kept going. The story ended up not bad. Thanks y’all! You’re the best!! God bless and Merry Christmas! ❤️💜💚
Sadly, having reintroduced hundreds, if not thousands of youngsters with their mothers, we knew quite quickly this one wasn't going to be successful. Not only did she ignore her ducklings, but she was openly hostile towards them too. Unfortunately this is a sign that too much time had passed and she just wasn't going to accept them :(
@@wildlifeaid oh I see, is it that she has forgotten she had them because of the passing of time? If they were kept together or reintroduced earlier on would that have made a difference? ❤🐥❤
@@Soldier4USA2005 Having had such an unsuccessful first attempt, we knew this particular duck had rejected her ducklings. Trying again was risking the safety of the ducklings. With the weather being so cold, ducklings can only afford to be in the water for short periods. Without their mother guiding them out of the water, they were at risk of getting waterlogged which would have been disastrous. In addition, the hostility from the mother meant that the ducklings were at risk of being drowned by her.
@@grazia1238 Yes, because of the time, she would no longer accept them. We introduced her as early as we could - when they first came in, the mother was completely collapsed and needed time to recover, without 8 babies to care for. Reintroducing earlier would have risked the health and safety of the ducklings - as soon as mum was stable, we tried to reintroduce :)
Glad to see mother Duck was O.K. Great rescue read thew thing about the vote for you and passed over and who else am I going to vote for so many Great Rescues well done. 1 more vote for you.
The nail polish doesn't hurt them if they try to groom it off? We had some December ducklings where I live and the nights were almost freezing. They had a very young mother. Sadly, none survived because our area is home to a lot of winter migrants, many of them hungry gulls and herons. In the summer, most of those predators go north, so there's a lower risk to the ducklings.
I was very worried about the mom duck. Bravo Maru! well, bravo to all of you!! xD So mommy duck had 11 ducklins? waw! I've never seen so many, actually this year the most I've seen was 4 (from the same "household") and all of them hatched very late... :-/
Hello! Since your experts on the manner and have experienced this kind of situation multiple times I was wondering if you could answer a (admittedly morbid) question that popped up in my mind while watching this video, and that’s how long do ducks exactly mourn/grieve? Specifically how long do they mourn/grieve for their young/ducklings? I know the ducks are very intelligent and social creatures that they can indeed sad or depressed (especially when one of their partners dies), but their mourning capabilities/behavior when it comes to losing their young always seemed a bit weird and off to me specially compared to some other animals I’ve seen. For example:I remember going out fishing with my dad once when I was about 9 or 10 and seeing a mother duck (mallard or Rouen) with one duckling, so me and my dad decided to cut up some small pieces of worms along with bits of bread and lettuce from my dad’s sandwich to feed it to them, they seemed like they were enjoying it but unfortunately the duckling got pulled/snatched down by a fish (don’t exactly remember what kind) and eaten in front of the mother who got mad/furious and chased it off (I had nightmares that night) and although the hen seemed stunned and upset and started furiously quacking for a bit, after a few seconds or 1 minute she seemed fine and continued eating the rest of the bits we left off for her then swim off with some other ducks which seemed very weird to young me. I had a similar incident recently about one or two years ago where either a red tailed hawk or peregrine falcon (don’t quite remember) snatched up two ducklings from a mother who had a very similar reaction and got over it pretty quick as well and went over to eat with the other ducks. The hens/mothers here seem off as well since I was expecting her to rejoice when you brought over her ducklings to her but instead it looks like she viewed them as strange ducklings which is why she was pecking them, from what remember researching mother/hen ducks unfortunately kill/drown strange ducklings that get near them or their young in the wild, which makes me think that she thought her ducklings died and simply moved on. I have absolutely no doubts that ducks are living, conscious creatures who can feel a wide variety of emotions like all of us and absolutely care about their young/babies (why else would they save/protect them from predators or try to help them when they’re injured?) but these types of behaviors seemed off to me and makes me think that they don’t grieve over their young like say some animals like Crows, Cows, Elephants, apes or monkey do and get over it quite quickly from what I’ve seen, tho I could very much be wrong. I’m just asking this question because 1. I’m very curious and want to learn more about those wonderful creatures/ducks and their behaviors/intelligence so I just wanna know from your experiences this kind of stuff what’s your take on it and 2. Because I hope the mother duck doesn’t get super sad or depressed about it for the rest of her life after the rescue since that would be quite very tragic:( P.S.: Keep up the great/amazing work! You people truly are a blessing to this world and its creatures. Also sorry if my English/text seemed bad or confusing, it’s not my native language. ^_^
Survival rates for ducklings in the wild are very low. Somewhere around 10-15%, and it's not unusual for entire broods to die. This means that, to put it bluntly, mother ducks are used to it. It would make no sense, evolutionary speaking, for ducks to get upset for a long time after their ducklings die, because a depressed duck wouldn't care for the rest of her brood to the best of her ability. Ducks move on quick because they evolved to not get upset about it. And they have so many ducklings because so few survive. Crows, elephants and monkeys are all very very different to ducks. They are much more intelligent, especially in terms of emotional intelligence. They also have only a few (or in most cases just one) offspring at a time, and invest a lot of effort into that one (or two/three, in the case of crows) offspring. So in terms of evolution, it makes sense that they would feel depressed for a while after losing their offspring, because they have a stronger protective instinct and more investment, and more capacity to feel upset. Cows are different. Dairy cows are terrible mothers. They've been bred to not really care about their calves at all, and they honestly don't care when their calves are taken away. A lot of the time, it's dangerous to keep a dairy calf with its mother because she will forget it exists and will trample it to death. Beef cows are good mothers, though. Very protective, and will get sad if separated, which is why beef calves are kept with their mothers and dairy calves are not.
@@Marzi29 but this does make me wonder some thing else, if ducks get over the loss of their ducklings relatively quickly “because they’re used to it” and “evolved not to get upset about it” like you say, then why do ducks and other water fowl behave differently/generally mourn/grieve when their mates die? 1.www.google.com/amp/s/thetandd.com/news/it-was-just-so-sad/article_6175d4a9-fb26-5b19-9535-f7adc478e801.amp.html 2.m.facebook.com/pringlesgoose/photos/pb.154783204731717.-2207520000.1439480410./362701570606545/?type=3&theater 3.www.kinderworld.org/blog/goose-waits-day-after-day-for-spouse-who-was-killed/#comments 4.johnhayesphotography.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/till-death-do-us-part/ 5.www.google.com/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/swan-dies-broken-heart-after-22225031.amp 6.honesttopaws.com/juliet-the-goose?as=799&asv=1 Is it because they’re not used to their mate dying or care more about their mates than they do they’re young? Swans are well known for grieving they’re dead mate for quite a while and even sometimes commit suicide or die of a broken heart over it.
I am a little bit off-topic. Tomorrow on the talkback can you tell us how WAF is being affected by the Avian Flu H5N8. It made me think about those poor little ducklings. I saw on the news where quite a few swans were found dead on a canal in Cumbria. What should we as the public does in our encounter with wild birds?
Aww. Poor mommy duck. Nail polish doesn't hurt them ??? What happens if the mother won't take them ahh you just answered my questioned .nice how long does it take got the ducklings to be able to eat and survive on there own?
I doubt it. It's not unusual for ducks to lose their mothering instincts after a few days, and stop recognising the ducklings as hers. At this time of year it's very very rare to see ducklings around so the chances of there being an abandoned brood nearby would be slim to none.
After time passing whilst separated, it's not uncommon for a mother to reject her young. We reintroduced as soon as it was safe to do so, but sadly the mother made it clear she had rejected the ducklings.
How many times should one try to re-introduce the ducklings to the mum before giving up? Plenty of human moms need a day away from the kids if they are really sick.
What is the reason the mother duck rejected the ducklings? Is that just a duck thing or do all birds reject their babies if they are not around them for a certain period of time?
Having spent too much time apart, and being in a traumatic event, meant that the duck rejected the ducklings :( We reintroduced as soon as it was safe to do so, but reintroducing any species with it's young carries a very short time frame
I'm sure she had her reasons, although it seems like a lot of mother ducks aren't that good at it. The trick seems to largely be down to recall- a mother that keeps her ducklings close controls them, a mother that can't get them to come back gets them spread out here there and everywhere until they get lost or predated. We've had a couple of interesting ones on the pond at work- one mother hatched 8 and she had a strong recall and an attitude. At one point someone witnessed her grabbing and slamdunking a seagull that attacked a baby. All 8 survived. Last year we had a clutch of 6-8 again, but with two mothers! I have no idea which babies belonged to which mother but they all went around together as a group and all babies survived again. Looks like that tactic worked.
Think she liked the hotel with all mod cons .Possibly with a bad head ache after her injury, cheeping babies were not her thing.......Mallard mums have a tough life :.Being with you was like being at a spa 👍
@@wildlifeaid She was not so keen to leave the carrier at a none spa pond. Your 5★★★★★ reputation is well known .The ducklings are safe at "finishing school" Doesn't get much better:) Great work
So she had 11 as three were killed? Seems like she knew the ducklings were better off at WAF than in the wild with her. Glad she survived and is back home.
Yes the brood would have been 11. Yes, as upsetting as it was to see her reject them, at least we know they'll be safe, fed and warm during the cold winter :) Mum was definitely happy to be back at home too.
man is this covids still going we wore masks maybe a month earlier in the year but ive not seen anyone wearing a mask in 4 months, i guess we go lucky go western australia
