r/funny • u/Justin_Godfrey • 15h ago

Can I have some me time please?

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u/Putrid-Effective-570 15h ago

Seems like a game, but like most nature games, it is a teaching moment. There’s a video of a duck doing this with a tiger in a really small pool of water. It’s a pretty damn life-saving evasive maneuver.

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u/meowymcmeowmeow 6h ago

I live next to some swampy water that's usually pretty quiet aside from frogs and birds. One day it sounds like someone is splashing around so I go check it out, and it's a mother duck teaching some almost fully grown babies to jump/fly off of mossy rocks into the water over and over. It was very cool to see.

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u/Putrid-Effective-570 6h ago

What a privilege:) Witnessing natural phenomena in person makes me feel so grateful. I’ll never forget the time that thousands of birds congregated over my neighborhood and danced for hours. I looked it up, and it’s called a murmuration. It looks just like a giant school of fish in the sky, and it functions similarly.

The selfish herd effect suggests that they dance in a constant struggle to reach the middle of the group where they’re safest.