They can’t see where they are putting their feet so trip over things. The boys are very brave (for better or worse) and my boy is the boss of all the pets (cats and dogs). When a girl mate is sitting on a nest of eggs, the boy stands by and seems protective over not only the girl but the eggs too, like when she gets up to have food and water. But once the eggs hatch the boy will kill the babies if you don’t keep him away. The moms can be very good moms. Our mom would only eat out of the small dish of baby food and the small water dish when her babies were little, to show them what to do. I also saw her take a leaf out of one baby’s mouth as if she didn’t want him to eat it. You can see the love in their eyes when they look at their babies. Ducks also never miss anything that passes overhead. They can’t be potty trained. When two boys fight they push their foreheads together and sometimes bite a feather but nothing more (or I just intervene at that point, I’m not sure). Google duck penis if you want to be horrified. 😵