Couple ring-necked ducks with their redhead friend. . It's common for ring-necked ducks to associate with other species, because, as I've mentioned before, all ducks are communist. . They may want to watch out for the redhead, though. While they spend a nice spring day swimming with him, his mate might be stealing their nest. Redheads are considered parasitic in the duck world. Instead if making their own nest, they often just take someone else's. . Yes, ducks are communist. But imagine if you took the time and effort to build a cabin and some jerk moved in and said, "this is communism, there is no property." and left you without any shelter as winter approached. Cooperation and mutual aid have to struggle with few parasitic individuals, but communism mostly fails because it does not abolish the underlying issue that undermines all individual cooperation, ethics, and morality; the most parasitic entity; the state. . I guess in their love of peace and unwillingness to implement state violence, which would mean giving up all they cherish, ducks accept that there will always be a few parasitic individuals who won't build their own nests. They don't even seem to resent them, but understand it as a fact of life and even maintain their friendships and cooperation with the redheads. . I wish I could be so noble and well-adjusted as a duck. . . . #redhead #redheadduck #ringneckedduck #ducks #duck #birds #ducksarecommunist #duckphilosophy #ducktheory #ducksinarow #ducktales #bird #birdwatchingphotography #birdwatchers (at Montana) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPGb6TYg-6J/?utm_medium=tumblr