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I’m Juan Carlos. I love to visit my grandma.
Guess what she has in her backyard…
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I notice some of the ducks look different from the others.
Grandma says the brown ones are mother ducks.
The ones with green heads are father ducks.
I wonder: Why is the mother duck brown? Why isn’t she brightly colored, like the father duck?
Maybe the mother used to be bright green, but she faded.
Or maybe the mother is brown so she can hide in the brown plants by the pond.
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I ask Grandma what she thinks.
She shows me a mother duck on her nest.
Look! Her color matches the color of the dry grass.
Being brown helps her hide.
But wait! Why are these little birds following the big duck?
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Grandma says the big duck is the mother.
The little ones are her babies.
The babies are called ducklings.
They follow their mother, walking in a line.
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I watch the ducklings.
Here’s what I think.
The mother duck shows the ducklings what to eat, where to go, how to swim.
Uh oh! Here comes a cat.
What’s going on here?
I want to take a duckling home with me.
Grandma says that ducklings need room to play and a pond to swim in.
I decide the ducklings should stay at Grandma’s house.
Grandma says I can come and visit her and the ducklings anytime.
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Now that you’ve seen how the mother duck helps her ducklings, take a look at these videos. Can you figure out what’s going on in each one?
What are the big birds doing? Why are they doing that?
These are shrews, animals about the size of a mouse. How do the babies make sure they don’t lose their mother?
This is an opossum and her babies. Why are the babies riding on their mother’s back?
