Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you're looking for something to brighten up a dreary winter day, this adorable video of ducklings swimming in a farmhouse sink ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... You better watch who you’re calling “bird brain.” A new study in the journal Science suggests that some birds are smarter than we realized. The study, which ...

Before 15-year-old Fred the dog stepped in, the baby birds were left alone on the grounds of Mountfitchet Castle in England after their duck mother disappeared Fifteen orphaned ducklings have found an ...

Wild populations of the rare Maccoa duck, an African wetland species, have been dwindling for decades. There numbers are estimated at only 5,000 wild individuals. But the United Kingdom’s Chester Zoo ...

Gold Shaw Farm documents the process of using a "broody" mother bird to adopt and protect a group of vulnerable, orphaned ducklings.

Fred lives in an English castle with his adorable adopted quackers Single parenthood can be tough, but rewarding. Just ask Fred, a yellow Labrador hailing from Mountfitchet Castle near Stansted, Essex ...

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 ...

In 1690, English philosopher John Locke claimed that “brutes abstract not.” By “brutes,” he meant our fellow animals. By “abstract,” he meant pulling out general concepts from specific examples. While ...

Many people know Make Way for Ducklings, but they might not know the lengths to which Robert McCloskey went to get the beloved Mallard family to look just right. Having already written much of the ...

The sight of a line of ducklings paddling along behind their mother is something that many of us are used to seeing in rivers and ponds. But why do ducklings swim in this formation? Scientists from ...