A group of Indian Runner ducks march past farm buildings at the Vergenoegd wine estate near Cape Town, South Africa, May 11, 2016. Each day, a quack squad of killer ducks are released for the first of ...
STELLENBOSCH, South Africa – The quacking is soft at first amid the vineyards that roll for miles in this South African wine-making town. But then the duck handlers whistle and wave their white flags, ...
Indian runner ducks have been used in Asia for thousands of years to control pests. Now they're used in a South African vineyard to eat snails that damage the vines. (Sarah Birnbaum for NPR) On ...
STELLENBOSCH, South Africa, May 25 (Reuters) - At 9.45 a.m. each day, more than 1,000 Indian Runner ducks are released for the first of two sorties at South Africa's Vergenoegd vineyard in ...
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) - Whether you think snails are good looking or good for nothing (or good eating), one fact seems undeniable: the little critters are everywhere this year. And they’re hungry. “I ...
On Vergenoegd Wine Estate in Stellenbosch, South Africa, about a thousand Indian runner ducks parade twice a day into a vineyard to rid it of pests. It's a remarkably orderly scene. Unlike your ...
On Vergenoegd Wine Estate in Stellenbosch, South Africa, about a thousand Indian runner ducks parade twice a day into a vineyard to rid it of pests. It's a remarkably orderly scene. Unlike your ...
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