Animals always give fun, curious, adorable and/or endearing moments, and when they are recorded and the videos are spread on social networks they instantly go viral. In fact, there are accounts on several platforms, such as Instagram, TikTok or X, formerly Twitter, that are dedicated to publicizing scenes of this nature.
An example is Nature is amazing, the profile located on the network owned by Elon Musk that accumulates millions of followers for its friendly and positive content dedicated to animals. One of his latest videos is that of a mother duck and her children walking through a vinyl store, which has accumulated thousands of views and reactions.
In the video in question you can see how the mother duck and her children are in a hallway of a vinyl store. The ducklings do not follow her in a row, as is customary to see in the water, but rather they step on her heels like a platoon.
The mother duck, inside the Peaches Records store, located in New Orleans, United States, walks down the hallway looking at vinyl on both sides until, when she reaches the end, she finds a door on the right hand side. However, the video ends before knowing how this story ends.
In the video the ducklings followed their mother in a group, but in the water it is common to see them in a row. According to a study published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, from the University of Cambridge, this action has a very beneficial reason for them. And by swimming in a straight line behind their mother, baby ducks use the waves that the mother's body generates to propel themselves, thus saving energy.
According to the data of the experts who formulated the research, "ducklings experience 158% less wave drag than when they swim alone." In addition, chasing after his mother shapes his primal instincts, according to research.
