How smart are ducks?

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Our duck Sheldon knows her name and will come when called.
I've also caught her many times distracting the other ducks so she can sneak away to me for an extra treat. She will make her happy duck sounds pretending she sees something amazing in the yard, like 'hey guys, awesome bugs over here!'...the other ducks will go to investigate and all have their heads down searching for whatever it is she has found. She will come running to me as fast as she can looking for peas before they can notice :)
Our drake is a handsome boy but doesn't seem super clever at all. He's pretty clumsy and often gets stuck in the run even with the door open.
In the past several weeks he has found one specific tree in the yard that he will just stand in front of every day and spend several minutes just talking to it. He is then left chatting away at this tree while his ladies wander off looking for bugs. It's pretty funny but I don't understand at all :)
Just like any animals some are just smarter than others I guess.
 
Selectively smart; if all but one duck leaves - the last one will run back and forth quaking instead of going around the water bucket and out the door but smart enough that having learned that if I see them with Styrofoam or hear their victorious "I have Styrofoam" quacks I will take it away. They found (or took) chuck of it between the tool shed and fence where I can't reach them or see them and quietly nibbled it until the lack of Duck babbled clued me in to something being up and I had to chase then out by poking a rake at them. (there as a trash panda EPIC fail several years ago and the stuff still turns up no mater how sure I am I've finally gotten all of it)

Then they stood around looking like a bunch of sassy teenager caught smoking behind the gym

Runner duck mom said:
In the past several weeks he has found one specific tree in the yard that he will just stand in front of every day and spend several minutes just talking to it. He is then left chatting away at this tree while his ladies wander off looking for bugs. It's pretty funny but I don't understand at all :)
Just like any animals some are just smarter than others I guess.
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I have a blue runner does that too! I have a video of it some where
 
My group of Runner including the wanna be Buffs that hatched with them have to be smart they don't do anything separately it's all for one and one for all here. Even it that means running out to stay with the group when you really need to lay that egg inside but it falls out on the ground as your running up the hill trying to keep up :rolleyes:
 
My ducks are smart enough to look guilty when they do something they shouldn't and to respond to the crinkling of plastic covers (frozen peas and corn). They are a lot smarter than many give them credit for. They will never wander off alone and if one is stuck - everyone will be there. The drakes are smart enough to get jealous, and one even has a special relationship with a special duck :p

The other day they got into a small stock tank that they had completely ignored for a year - just after I put some minnows and pond plants in it :th

Some after definitely smarter than others. And sometimes they are stupider than a loaf of bread. But hey, they're cute as can be. Ducks will be ducks I guess :idunno
 

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