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  • Meet the mother duck who every year gives birth to her chicks in a hospital before parading them down the hallways. Once a year, every year, the patients at the continuing care unit of the University of Rochester's Thompson Health hospital, in Canandaigua, New York, are treated to this adorable sight. The local duck returns every spring to the same courtyard in the middle of the hospital to lay her eggs. Amazingly, the cunning bird has even learned to knock on the doors to be allowed into the building to get to her favorite nesting spot. Then without fail, once her chicks have hatched, she marches them through the hospital back to the surrounding woodland. To the delight of the patients, the little ducks can be seen following their mom throughout the hospital’s hallways, out the door, and into a grassy area behind the facility. The duck follows the same path every year, and facility services staff use old signage to guide her and the ducklings through the halls gently. Amazingly, despite it being an annual occurrence, this is the first time staff has attempted to document the adorable "rite of spring". A statement released by care staff said: “Every year, without fail, a mama duck chooses one of the enclosed courtyards at our M.M. Ewing Continuing Care Center to lay her eggs and take care of her babies. She lets us know when she’s ready to go by tapping on the glass, and this morning, it was time for this annual rite of spring.”. 21 May 2019 Pictured: Adorable mother duckling walks her chicks through a New York hospital every year. Photo credit: Thompson Health / MEGA TheMegaAgency.com +1 888 505 6342
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  • A pet goose "Su Su" has become a local celebrity as it follows its "father" Jiang Guozhen's family around wherever they go who had been considered as a duckling when been founded several months ago in Kunming,Yunnan,China on 17th July 2017.<br />
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  • A pet goose "Su Su" has become a local celebrity as it follows its "father" Jiang Guozhen's family around wherever they go who had been considered as a duckling when been founded several months ago in Kunming,Yunnan,China on 17th July 2017.<br />
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 (Photo by Top Photo)
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  • A pet goose "Su Su" has become a local celebrity as it follows its "father" Jiang Guozhen's family around wherever they go who had been considered as a duckling when been founded several months ago in Kunming,Yunnan,China on 17th July 2017.<br />
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 (Photo by Top Photo)
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  • A pet goose "Su Su" has become a local celebrity as it follows its "father" Jiang Guozhen's family around wherever they go who had been considered as a duckling when been founded several months ago in Kunming,Yunnan,China on 17th July 2017.<br />
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 (Photo by Top Photo)
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  • A pet goose "Su Su" has become a local celebrity as it follows its "father" Jiang Guozhen's family around wherever they go who had been considered as a duckling when been founded several months ago in Kunming,Yunnan,China on 17th July 2017.<br />
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 (Photo by Top Photo)
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  • A pet goose "Su Su" has become a local celebrity as it follows its "father" Jiang Guozhen's family around wherever they go who had been considered as a duckling when been founded several months ago in Kunming,Yunnan,China on 17th July 2017.<br />
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 (Photo by Top Photo)
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  • A pet goose "Su Su" has become a local celebrity as it follows its "father" Jiang Guozhen's family around wherever they go who had been considered as a duckling when been founded several months ago in Kunming,Yunnan,China on 17th July 2017.<br />
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 (Photo by Top Photo)
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