A man who has raised a duckling since it hatched has shared the peculiarities of his newfound duck dadhood. Newborn ducklings become attached to whoever they first interact with in a process called ...

Hang around the ducklings right after they hatch. The birds open their eyes and immediately start looking for a caregiver. By Malia Wollan “Ducklings will imprint on anything that moves that’s bigger ...

This just broke my dawww bone. The two ducklings above are named Biggie and Pac (get those ducks a see saw!) and they regard Yogi the Corgi as their mother. How can this be? The biological process of ...

When baby animals such as ducklings are born, they begin to identify and follow their mother around through a process called imprinting. Scientists say a duckling can imprint on its mother in as ...

If the state of the world has you feeling down and you need something that can turn your frown upside down, look no further; the goat duck is here to soothe all your sorrows. What is goat duck, you ...

OXFORD, England, July 14 (UPI) --New research reveals ducklings are surprisingly intelligent. According to scientist at Oxford University, newborn ducks quickly learn the concepts of "same" and ...

Scientists from the University of Oxford have shown that newly hatched ducklings can readily acquire the concepts of 'same' and 'different' - an ability previously known only in highly intelligent ...

Kacelnik doubts whether it would be possible to engender abstract thought in older ducklings and ducks, given that the motivation to grasp the information is instinctive after hatching. “Logic ...