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By Andrew (
Staff Writ
They've been beaten, chased
ducks that live in the n.ectioi
Cooper Library are a weli-ivnown
library employee.
The ducks arrived at USC afte
were abandoned as ducklings, a<
the library's associate director.
Ridge is known as "the due
employees because of her interest
Since their arrival the ducks ha
popular residents at the universit;
"THOSE DUCKS are the only r
I've never come to the library ?
there watching them," she said.
However, the five hens and tw
suffered at the hands of their pub
told of one instance when a dog c;
carried them one-by-one to its hor
"Evidently some woman was b
dog had brought her. The next daj
front of the library and threw ti
"We never did find out who she w*
Another time a little girl stole
bathtub for a week before the 1
said. "Those ducks have been thrc
The saddest event, she said, u
a fraternity captured two ducks a
of times ducks disappear and w<
[ pened to them."
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tin the ducks.
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aptured the ducks alive and
ne.
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le ducks out," Ridge said.
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1 a duck and kept it in her
ibrary was notified, Ridge
nigh some rough times."
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their mating season," Ridge said,
ritual. The drake and hen get opposi
their heads up and down."
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actual mating.
Once the new ducklings hatch, U
island in the middle of the pond
university also supplies the library
hens and two drakes, Ridge said.
"It's fascinating to see how fast I
said. They reach maturity at eight
they look like "gawky teenagers," si
Although the ducks are well ca
library is "not in the business of rais
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le library puts a wooden
for them to sit on. The
with corn to feed the five the
ducklings grow," she
weeks old, but until then
he said.
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ing ducks."
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