Seen this before. The duck is NOT feeding the koi/carp/goldfish. In fact, the fish are trying to eat the DUCK. This is how most ducklings lose their lives; by being grabbed from underneath by large fish.
I don’t read duckling minds, but this GIF is a two-second loop of a longer clip. You realize that, right? The duckling is eating the spilled koi feed, and ignorantly peering at the koi who are eager to grab a duck dinner. In this tightly edited clip, he happens to go back and forth a couple of times. There’s a lot of important context that has been excised. You’ve watched the clip loop over and over, and been convinced that the duckling did nothing but keep repeating this particular motion, where he almost seemed like a person.
Literally every video you see is edited like this, from cute animals to political debates. If you saw the parts that were taken out, and saw it in the actual order it happened, you’d have a radically different experience.
Great! Then you understand that this animated GIF is a depiction, not of “a duckling who is almost certainly feeding koi or throwing rocks at them” but of “a duckling who, in this carefully selected snippet, *amusingly seems* to be feeding koi beak-to-mouth, as though he were a cute, feathery child”.
It’s no less amusing, but defending the notion that the clip is exactly what it seems to be, is just pointless, eh?
…except the ones to his right.
Yeah, they’re crying fowl.
Seen this before. The duck is NOT feeding the koi/carp/goldfish. In fact, the fish are trying to eat the DUCK. This is how most ducklings lose their lives; by being grabbed from underneath by large fish.
If he’s not feeding them, what then… does he think he’s throwing rocks at them?
I don’t read duckling minds, but this GIF is a two-second loop of a longer clip. You realize that, right? The duckling is eating the spilled koi feed, and ignorantly peering at the koi who are eager to grab a duck dinner. In this tightly edited clip, he happens to go back and forth a couple of times. There’s a lot of important context that has been excised. You’ve watched the clip loop over and over, and been convinced that the duckling did nothing but keep repeating this particular motion, where he almost seemed like a person.
Literally every video you see is edited like this, from cute animals to political debates. If you saw the parts that were taken out, and saw it in the actual order it happened, you’d have a radically different experience.
Yes, I understand GIFS are just a few to several images spliced together to form a video motion and I understand how editing works.
Great! Then you understand that this animated GIF is a depiction, not of “a duckling who is almost certainly feeding koi or throwing rocks at them” but of “a duckling who, in this carefully selected snippet, *amusingly seems* to be feeding koi beak-to-mouth, as though he were a cute, feathery child”.
It’s no less amusing, but defending the notion that the clip is exactly what it seems to be, is just pointless, eh?