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Another shot that made me smile - yep a walking Running Duck
I know little things eh? i can be sensible too so here`s some info - if anyone actually reads these?
Indian Runners are an unusual breed of domestic duck. They stand erect like penguins and, rather than waddle, they run... really fast!
Beatrix Potter's depiction of Jemima Puddle-Duck with a mostly upright, elongated posture, being an errant laying duck not trusted to incubate its own eggs, suggests that the actual duck she was based on was one of these
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hehe, just like the duck in Peter and the Wolf!
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Thank you - yes I can see that too now you mention it
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I mean the stop motion movie- Peter´s duck is also a running duck... (or WAS, before she became wolf dinner)
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Thanks much appreciated
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