Ducklings Fly for the First Time

The photographer behind a Swedish-language photo blog captured this image two Common Goldeneye ducklings flying for the first time. Flap harder, baby ducks!

Link (Translation) -via Twisted Sifter


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"They do not fly so much as... plummet". It'll be quite a while before these guys do the flap-flap-takeoff thing... ducklings leave the nest like hacky-sacks, never to return... watch the Nature special on ducks to get the full story.
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I'm currently on a medically-supervised fast to lose weight, and in a few months I'm going to need to learn to live with a diet that is far lower in carbs than what I've enjoyed in the past. So I'm looking at this and thinking... protein pasta? I don't care if it's crickets, sign me up!

But then I look at their nutritional information and find that while it does contain almost twice as much protein as regular pasta, the carb count is practically the same. What's more notable is that it contains 30 times the sodium! Wow. Takes a lot of salt to make cricket palatable, I guess.
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