Yogi, a 5-year-old Corgi, was fascinated by the ducklings his owner Frances Marsh brought home from a garden center in Atlantic Beach, NC. “They were in a little box, and he just leaned his head over and licked them!†But it seems the ducklings were more fascinated with Yogi—who took the place of their mom—and they started to follow him everywhere. Frances says Yogi sleeps by the ducklings’ box and herds them by gently pushing them with his nose. Experts describe the ducklings behavior as “imprintingâ€â€”transferring the natural instinct to follow their mother to another human or animal who steps into the role.
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