There is some surprising news in Freeport, Maine; Kylie Brown has become a mother at the age of five years! Did you gasp?!
No need, because her child is a duck called Snowflake, whom she has raised from birth. So why call her a mother, as opposed to a pet owner? The answer lies in the unique behavior of baby ducklings, known as imprinting.
A young duckling naturally identifies with any animal larger than them, whom they see in their very earliest days of life. This need not be a mother duck…it could be any larger animal from a different species, including a Human Animal! Read the full story here ▶
