Ducks are outgoing, social animals who feel the most 'at home' when they’re in a larger group of other ducks. This group of ducks is called a paddling. They spend their days looking for food in the grass or in shallow water, and they sleep together with their paddling at night. Ducks use vocalizations and body language to communicate. Research recently conducted at a British university show that Ducks even use different dialectecs, and have accents dependent on where they live.

Ducks are very unique little creatures. Once Mallards select each other for mates, they mate for life. When you see a hen or a drake all alone, the mate is dead.

I was walking to Sociology a week or so back and I saw a male Mallard. He was going crazy, quacking his head off and making one hell of a racket outside of West Hall. I stood and watched him for a while from across the street. He carried on for minutes, but it seemed like hours. I thought to myself: "What is so wrong with this duck?"

I heard flapping overhead and I looked upwards. A female Mallard was flying over my head. She coasted, and dropped to the side of the male Mallard. He stopped crying, and ran to her side. They nuzzled slightly.

I believe it sweetest thing I've ever seen in my entire life. It melted the ice off of my heart.

Thanks you, God for sending me those ducks.