Where do ducks come from?

woohoo! Congratulations Henry, you are the first person to ask a question on this site! Now back to our very interesting question ...

To answer this simply, ducks come from mama ducks (quacks) and papa ducks (drakes). The males and females usually pair up in late fall and they make the nests for breeding in early Spring. During the right time, they start the breeding process. Yes Henry, contrary to what you might have thought before, ducks have sex too *gasp*. The male does not fertilize the egg after it is laid, but rather the mama and papa ducks engage in a mating ritual.

Here are some signs:
* Bobbing head up and down- This seems to say ...hey you're cute, how about a date ?
* Drake biting and/or pulling the back of the hens neck/feathers.
* Drake standing on hens back dunking the hens head in the water. This looks like he's trying to drowned her!

So after the couple finish mating, the female will lay eggs, which hopefully would be fertilized and then incubated to make little cute duckies. And that's where ducks come from!

Fun fact for the day:
Dolphins are the only species other than humans that have sex for pleasure.