Illumination and Universal Pictures’ upcoming animated family film Migration follows the misadventures of a family of ducks living in a New England pond. The feathered family is made up of parents ...

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 ...

When Stillwater Area High School junior Peter Jansen walks out of sight, his latest Advanced Placement Biology experiment starts "cheeping like crazy." That's because Perry, a three-week-old ...

This time of year it’s not uncommon to see a mama duck or goose on the lake with a dozen or so little ones following close behind. Ever wonder why they follow her? It’s not for the food, because she ...

Conventional wisdom states that, newly hatched, a duckling will immediately clamp onto the first suitable mother figure it lays eyes on. We often see this ability, known as imprinting, go awry—in the ...

Say the word “imprinting,” and most people envision little ducklings following their mother, or maybe following the ethologist and Nobel laureate Konrad Lorenz, who studied the phenomenon in the 1930s ...