|
Mother duck stops traffic
17/06/2006 19:41 - (SA)
Dublin - A mother duck brought traffic in central Dublin to a standstill on Friday, as she marched her seven ducklings to a pond for their first swim.
The duck, encouraged by passersby, was relocating her young from their birthplace in the grounds of Trinity College to St Stephen's Green, the city's historic public park, about 800m away.
She makes the trip, with a new brood, every year.
"She's been doing it for about the last six or seven years now - laying her eggs at the college and then taking the babies to the green," said Trinity groundskeeper David Hackett.
"Usually she's good and picks an evening when it's quiet to waddle them up the street, but sometimes she doesn't and, in the past, we've had to have the police help us out with the traffic."
This time, two members of Trinity's zoology department had to escort the new family safely along several busy streets.
- Reuters
|
South Africa
