I doubt the quacking mother here was asking for help rather than just quacking in distress, but that’s not implied. At any rate, these firefighters restore my faith in humanity.
Lagniappe: Another duck rescue, which I believe I’ve posted before, but so what? This one (contributed by Heather Hastie via Ann German) may be in Czechoslovakia. Around the world, we have some really nice Quack Responders.
https://twitter.com/i_iove_nature/status/1117042270983917569
Czechoslovakia?
Good point. “Hasiči” on the shirts suggests Czechia although the original video has an on-scene TV lady brandishing a mic with a Slovak TV channel logo on it so I go for Slovakia.
Google translate identifies it as Czech. Click on the image:
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img921/5351/zaPGAP.jpg
I know that’s why I wrote “Czechia”, but like I wrote originally the report is by a Slovak TV station – Slovak fire trucks also have “Hasiči” on the front.
That’s because they speak the same language – previously, it was one country: Czechoslovakia. 🙂
I guess you think I don’t know that.
I assumed you did.
Not quite the same language, but two closely related languages. There’s some mutual intelligiblility – more in one direction than the other. I lived in Slovakia for 4 months and picked up a bit of the basics of Slovak – fortunately Slovak learners are spared the horrors of the Czech ‘r’.
Czechoslovquackia ??
Lovely. I can almost believe that Mama is counting the returns. Maybe she can in her fashion.
In the background you can hear Eva, the dispatcher, such a nice robot lady.
Some of the places ducklings find themselves in make me consider spontaneous generation.