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See The Adorable Images Of A Mother Duck With 76 Ducklings In Her Care by obafemee80(m): 11:30pm On Jul 28, 2018
A mother duck has been captured in a set of adorable pictures caring for no less than 76 ducklings – and despite the size of the brood, her feathers remain unruffled.

The remarkable images of the common mergansers were captured by Brent Cizek at Lake Bemidji, in Northern Minnesota, the photographer’s home state.

The 32-year-old told MailOnline Travel: ‘From what I've been told, this is a common practice among common mergansers.



‘Mergansers will dump their eggs into multiple nests, so when they incubate they have eggs from other mothers in the same nest.

‘However, they can only incubate up to 20 eggs. So while some of these chicks may be hers, it's not possible for all of them to be from her.




‘She likely picked them up from other mothers when the ducklings got separated and it's also possible that she is caring for all of the babies on the lake.

‘There is greater odds for survival if the brood is much larger.’


At first Mr Cizek counted 50 ducklings in tow, then on another trip to the lake he counted 76. In one picture he managed to capture 56 ducklings following the mother.

When he posted his images of them online they quickly went viral.



Twitter user Hannah J Waters commented: ‘Is there anything sweeter in the universe?

Adult ducks can’t tell which birds are theirs, and lost young birds that have already imprinted on their own mothers will instinctively start following another common merganser because she looks like mom.’

Gwendolyn G Bieschke wrote 'real men shoot ducks with cameras!' and Beverly Jones said 'this is just magnificent'.

User Holly Landau joined in, too, writing 'thank you for noticing something so awesome and sharing it with us'. 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-5995649/Adorable-images-Brent-Cizek-mother-duck-SEVENTY-SIX-ducklings-care.html

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Re: See The Adorable Images Of A Mother Duck With 76 Ducklings In Her Care by Nobody: 11:34pm On Jul 28, 2018
If this was in Nigeria .
Erosion will carry some of those ducklings.
Thief will carry some.
Motor will jam the mother duck and all the remaining ducklings will most likely die miserably from other natural or artificial disaster.
Nigeria my country![img]https://media1./images/e82c2cd09db0bf410917cda2ef22ffd4/tenor.gif?itemid=4986298[/img]

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Re: See The Adorable Images Of A Mother Duck With 76 Ducklings In Her Care by Aldebaran(m): 11:38pm On Jul 28, 2018
Some mothers are like this duck in nature...

They treat other kids just like it is theirs... kiss

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Re: See The Adorable Images Of A Mother Duck With 76 Ducklings In Her Care by Kharol1234: 12:01am On Jul 29, 2018
see as dem line up like say dem dae assembly ground... D ducks mama na mother of virtue

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Re: See The Adorable Images Of A Mother Duck With 76 Ducklings In Her Care by Shelumiel: 12:03am On Jul 29, 2018
God is great .

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Re: See The Adorable Images Of A Mother Duck With 76 Ducklings In Her Care by jomoh: 12:31am On Jul 29, 2018
This is so adorable

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Re: See The Adorable Images Of A Mother Duck With 76 Ducklings In Her Care by Ever8054: 12:38am On Jul 29, 2018
look at how orderly they are moving...more organize and civilize than Nigeria leaders...including buhari,fayoshe,Dino malaye,sarki..

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Re: See The Adorable Images Of A Mother Duck With 76 Ducklings In Her Care by Bossontop(m): 5:32am On Jul 29, 2018
undecided
Its a pity dat some human beings are supposed to be higher animals but behave and reason lower than dis mother duck

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Re: See The Adorable Images Of A Mother Duck With 76 Ducklings In Her Care by KingLennon(m): 5:54am On Jul 29, 2018
Ever8054:
look at how orderly they are moving...more organize and civilize than Nigeria leaders...including buhari,fayoshe,Dino malaye,sarki..
Behave!

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Re: See The Adorable Images Of A Mother Duck With 76 Ducklings In Her Care by Nobody: 6:33am On Jul 29, 2018
i just wish some human mothers can learn from these animals...

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Re: See The Adorable Images Of A Mother Duck With 76 Ducklings In Her Care by Nobody: 7:11am On Jul 29, 2018
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Re: See The Adorable Images Of A Mother Duck With 76 Ducklings In Her Care by queenbetsy(f): 7:11am On Jul 29, 2018
Some mothers can't even lead two kids aright.


Thumbs up for her!!!

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Re: See The Adorable Images Of A Mother Duck With 76 Ducklings In Her Care by BruncleZuma: 7:12am On Jul 29, 2018
Did you know that in China ducks are an awesome delicacy? What sort of FP be this one sef?

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Re: See The Adorable Images Of A Mother Duck With 76 Ducklings In Her Care by HonSuQMaDIQ(m): 7:13am On Jul 29, 2018
cheesy grin cheesy
Mother Duck Buhari has a lot to learn here. Fulani ducklings shouldn't matter most to him all the time. What if Buhari comes back in next life as a middle beltan christian? Food for thought!!

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Re: See The Adorable Images Of A Mother Duck With 76 Ducklings In Her Care by BornnAgainChild(f): 7:13am On Jul 29, 2018
Iya ni wura

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Re: See The Adorable Images Of A Mother Duck With 76 Ducklings In Her Care by MrHighSea: 7:13am On Jul 29, 2018
Mother duck runs a motherless ducks home.
SINGLEHANDEDLY.

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Re: See The Adorable Images Of A Mother Duck With 76 Ducklings In Her Care by ekensi01: 7:13am On Jul 29, 2018
Really Adorable.
Na Only One Dude Did That?
Re: See The Adorable Images Of A Mother Duck With 76 Ducklings In Her Care by eolme(f): 7:14am On Jul 29, 2018
Wow. This is beautiful

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Re: See The Adorable Images Of A Mother Duck With 76 Ducklings In Her Care by xreal: 7:15am On Jul 29, 2018
Nice one @ OP

Was thinking this was from Explorers again.

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Re: See The Adorable Images Of A Mother Duck With 76 Ducklings In Her Care by health2wealth: 7:15am On Jul 29, 2018
Amazing. Another way men can learn leadership and loyalty from nature. God is great. Nature has been teaching men since...Who is that fool that says there is no God?

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Re: See The Adorable Images Of A Mother Duck With 76 Ducklings In Her Care by Racoon(m): 7:16am On Jul 29, 2018
shocked shocked Duck hatchlings can be this plenty? I mean how can a mother duck incubate this amount of eggs @ once

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Re: See The Adorable Images Of A Mother Duck With 76 Ducklings In Her Care by Racoon(m): 7:16am On Jul 29, 2018
What an adorable sight.Ducklings are so beautiful when small.

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Re: See The Adorable Images Of A Mother Duck With 76 Ducklings In Her Care by Lomprico2: 7:16am On Jul 29, 2018
Is its name obasanjoress? lipsrsealed grin

76 cha!
Re: See The Adorable Images Of A Mother Duck With 76 Ducklings In Her Care by Ever8054: 7:17am On Jul 29, 2018
KingLennon:
Behave!
gerout....!!!!!

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Re: See The Adorable Images Of A Mother Duck With 76 Ducklings In Her Care by MANNABBQGRILLS: 7:18am On Jul 29, 2018
Joy of motherhood! cheesy wink

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Re: See The Adorable Images Of A Mother Duck With 76 Ducklings In Her Care by letsfarmnigeria: 7:18am On Jul 29, 2018
lovely
mothers love






log on to letsfarmnigeria..com and see pics and videos of real farm work going on

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Re: See The Adorable Images Of A Mother Duck With 76 Ducklings In Her Care by monaPhilz: 7:19am On Jul 29, 2018
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shocked.

Nature is amazing. God is the greatest.

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Re: See The Adorable Images Of A Mother Duck With 76 Ducklings In Her Care by GOFRONT(m): 7:25am On Jul 29, 2018
Make water snake catch dem first....the water snake will be like bring dem on.....they are welcom grin "someone pls help me with that Jide kosoko meme"

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Re: See The Adorable Images Of A Mother Duck With 76 Ducklings In Her Care by MrBONE2(m): 7:29am On Jul 29, 2018
Ever8054:
look at how orderly they are moving...more organize and civilize than Nigeria leaders...including buhari,fayoshe,Dino malaye,sarki..

Seems You are a SOCIOLOGIST grin
Re: See The Adorable Images Of A Mother Duck With 76 Ducklings In Her Care by HajimeSaito(m): 7:35am On Jul 29, 2018
Meanwhile some mothers are aborting foetuses and dumping newly borns in gutters. Babies are not mistakes to be thrown away. All lives are precious in God's eyes. Even nature understands this, so why can't human beings who are supposedly created in God's image?

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