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Wild Lights CANCELED TONIGHT

Due to flooding around some lanterns, Wild Lights is canceled tonight, Nov. 8. If you already have tickets, they’ll be valid any other night that Wild Lights is open.

Indian runner duck

Children’s Farms·Bird

With legs placed farther back than most ducks and short thigh bones, this duck can stand upright and run instead of waddle. Runner ducks have a posture so nearly perpendicular that they are called “penguin ducks.”

  • Conservation StatusLeast Concern
  • Life span8-12 years
  • Body size20-26 in. long
  • Native habitat Grasslands and marine areas of Southeast Asia
  • DietGrains and insects
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