{"id":338659,"date":"2026-07-13T17:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/338659\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T17:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:51:09","slug":"florida-man-has-unlikely-friendship-with-baby-animal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/338659\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Man Has Unlikely Friendship With Baby Animal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Florida woman shared a video showing the close bond her husband developed with a duckling that hatched near their home.The footage shows the duckling happily approaching the man, following him around the yard, and calmly spending time by his side. He is also seen gently picking up the young bird while its mother remains nearby without showing signs of distress.According to the woman, a duck nested and hatched ducklings near their garage, and over time her husband earned the trust of one of the ducklings.She said he even built a shaded area with a small pool to help the ducks stay cool in the Florida heat, and the video captures the duckling continuing to seek him out as their unusual friendship grows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida woman shared a video showing the close bond her husband developed with a duckling that hatched&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-338659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}