Reply #1: No, they suffer from "wounded duck syndrome". [View All]

[Major Hogwash]

From Chevy Chase's movie, "Modern Problems".
The mother duck acts like it has a broken wing when predators get up close to her nest, so she draws the predator's attention so he will chase her, as she runs away from the nest.

The duck puts on a show and quacks and says, "help me, help me" acting like she has a broken wing.
And then after the predator sees her, he chases her for awhile.
Then, after she has run far from the nest, she takes off into flight and flies back to her nest.
The predator is confused by the "wounded duck syndrome" because he sees his dinner fly off.
In the process, he forgets where he was when he first saw the duck, not realizing how close to her nest he was in the first place.

Dabney Coleman has a great part in that movie.