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Ducks Thumbelina: Don Bluth Productions: Ducks that sing the song Thumbelina in the beginning of the film along with the other farm animals, most notably the one female duck who sings the first line. The ducks are seen in later in the film around the part where Thumbelina's mother starts to sing Soon (Reprise). [1] [2] Duck Word World: The ...
Leafie, A Hen into the Wild (Korean: 마당을 나온 암탉; RR: Madangeul Naon Amtak), also called Daisy, A Hen into the Wild in English-speaking countries, is a 2011 South Korean animated drama film which depicts the freedom, will and instinctive motherly love of a hen as she raises an adopted duckling.
Altricial young are born helpless and require care for a length of time. Altricial birds include hawks, herons, woodpeckers, owls, cuckoos and most passerines. Among mammals, marsupials and most rodents are altricial. Domestic cats, dogs, and primates, such as humans, are some of the best-known altricial organisms. [14]
In bi-parental care, the male provides food and the female is a caretaker. Both ensure the survival of the offspring. The female may care for her young by covering them to keep them warm, shielding them from the sun or from rain and guarding them from predation. The male may also feed the female, who in turn regurgitates the food to the chicks.
Generally, parental care is expected to evolve from a previous state of no care when the costs of providing care are outweighed by the benefits to a caring parent. For example, if the benefit of increased offspring survival or quality exceed the decreased chance of survival and future reproductive success of the parent, then parental care may ...
Alloparenting (or alloparental care) is a term for any form of parental care provided by an individual towards young that are not its own direct offspring. These are often called "non-descendant" young, [ 1 ] even though grandchildren can be among them. [ 2 ]
The Oregon Duck, mascot of University of Oregon's Oregon Ducks; QuackerJack, mascot for the Long Island Ducks minor league baseball team; Webster, the Orange RubberDuck of the Akron RubberDucks; Wild Wing, mascot for the National Hockey League's Anaheim Ducks (originally the Mighty Ducks, named after the Mighty Ducks movies)
The coot is an omnivore, and will take a variety of small live prey including the eggs of other water birds, as well as algae, vegetation, seeds and fruit. [20] It shows considerable variation in its feeding techniques, grazing on land or in the water. In the water it may upend in the fashion of a mallard or dive in search of food. [21]