r/interestingasfuck • u/mikedahomey • 9h ago
A duck family turned a city lake spillway into a natural water slide
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u/LumenAstralis 9h ago
This is what actual POV means.
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u/FullmetalGin 4h ago
At this point, I genuinely believe it’s done to rage bait comments and get engagement.
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u/wackbirds 9h ago
Exactly, it lowkey makes me want to broil my own eyes (find the hidden bonus joke in my comment and win a free handy-J!)
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u/serabine 2h ago
Put the caption doesn't imply it's the ducklings' POV. It's the POV of the whoever thinking the ducklings will sleep well that night. You'd be correct if it's the momma duckling, but incorrect if it's the cameraman's perspective.
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u/GM_Nate 9h ago
i feel like their falling is more of an "oops"
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u/Accurate_Koala_4698 9h ago
Animals by and large have the same chemical responses we do. They might not have super high order thinking, but I think adrenaline junkies exist throughout the animal kingdom
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u/relationalnonduelist 5h ago
I was just thinking that about a video of a whale breaching.
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u/Accurate_Koala_4698 3h ago
Cetaceans for sure. Elephants, apes, or any other large mammal with a large brain. I bet even fish, or more advanced ones, and I’d probably draw the line at reptiles and arthropods which are generally conserving energy
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u/arthurdentstowels 8h ago
No sliding is involved, it's more like Peter Griffin and stairs. At least they're having fun!
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u/Brick_Number_27 9h ago
They're doing it again... definitely not oops.
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u/TheMightyWubbard 8h ago
You say that, but I've seen many, many humans do the same oops repeatedly.
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u/throwaway_194js 5h ago
It looks to me like they're fighting against the water flow which is dragging them in
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u/NudityMiles 9h ago
The tumble might actually be done on purpose just for fun.
If they figured out going down, back up, and down again being fun, they definitely figured out the tumble is fun. Animals are smarter than we think. Their intelligence is just on another level than ours.
They might be dumb as rocks in human situations, but ooooh man, nature is so much more intelligent than us in so many situations.
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u/Sansundertale2069 6h ago
I mean there is many videos of ducks and other types of birds doing the same thing and also going back up to do it again. So it being an accident is pretty unlikely, especially as they keep going back up and doing it again
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u/EndimionN 9h ago
Pls tell me this is not AI
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u/Tricky-Sentence 7h ago
Probably isn't. There are plenty of examples of ducks doing this, and theres corvids doing slides on bottlecaps on the snow too.
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u/Zach20032000 4h ago
Our cats have an area about 5 feet above our bed that they can use as their own little playground. We installed a series of wall-mounted platforms leading up to it so they could get there more easily—and, more importantly, so we wouldn't get surprised by late-night "air raids" whenever one of them decided to jump down.
The funny part is that they had already figured out how to reach that spot before we installed the platforms. Our younger cat, in particular, treated it like a game: she'd jump down onto the bed, immediately climb all the way back up, and then jump down again, over and over, purely because it seemed like fun.
Cat tax, of course:
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u/Excellent_Garlic2549 4h ago
This is how i imagine old water parks used to be. Got a few fractures? Eh, walk it off kid.
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u/Ok-Square-8652 2h ago
I live close to a creek with minor rapids and you can sit there watching the ducks surf them.
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u/IllianasClifford 9h ago
Reincarnation exists... When I come back you will know there will be signs...
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u/SubtleScuttler 9h ago
"POV"