Animals can be adorable in a number of ways: by being fluffy, by being silly and playful, by showing their love for us, and by (among many other things) being confused about things.
Yep, since animals have a drastically different kind of perception than we humans do, they automatically react in different ways than we do.
Take this lovely neighborhood hawk, for instance, who was completely confused about the “duck” it saw. Except it wasn’t really a duck—it was a duck lawn ornament.
Wildlife is adorable, especially when it's confused about something we know is made of plastic, yet looks real
Image credits: Garybob
So, YouTube user Garybob uploaded a video of a hawk who thought he’d just hit the jackpot by finding a suitable meal, only to be bamboozled by the fact that it’s a lawn ornament.
Just think about it: a hawk is flying about the neighborhood, scoping out something to eat. Bam, it sees a lone duck, sitting in the middle of a meadow. It’s like being served a dish on a silver platter!
Well, lo and behold, the hawk swoops in for the kill—note, hawks are apex predators that may sometimes target ducks—and something doesn’t seem right.
This hawk was completely confused about a duck lawn ornament that it stumbled upon
Image credits: Garybob
Image credits: Garybob
The hawk starts expressing clear signs of suspicion and confusion. Suddenly, it paces towards it and attacks, only to be rejected by the plastic exterior of the pretty realistic duck figure.
The hawk starts pacing, trying to claw it multiple times, bringing it down with its sharp talons, all the while looking out for other predators or potential food.
This lasts for a good 2 minutes—just pacing, occasionally moving or attacking the plastic duck, and just being completely puzzled by how it’s not moving, not even responding in any way.
It kept pacing around, clawing it with its talons, puzzled as to why it's not reacting or being threatened
Image credits: Garybob
Image credits: Garybob
Here's the 2-minute video of the hawk being confused as heck
Image credits: Garybob
Once the hawk’s patience runs out, it decides to just fly away—seeing as there’s nothing edible about this plastic duck, nor is there much “life” (i.e. resistance) coming from it, the hawk decides to bolt.
The video was quite popular among internauts, garnering nearly 1.8 million views with over 29,000 likes on the video on YouTube.
The hawk's confusion was captured on video and it went viral on YouTube, getting nearly 1.8M views
Image credits: Garybob
Image credits: Garybob
Now, this isn’t the only time a hawk was seen being confused about plastic lawn ornaments. Steve Grimme shared this video on Facebook of a hawk being confused by a plastic rabbit.
The reaction is pretty much the same: a lot of looking and circling around, the occasional attack and the priceless face (beak?) of confusion every time the rabbit doesn’t “comply” with the “being attacked protocol.”
Turns out, it's not the only confused hawk out there as seen in another internaut's video of a hawk being all confused by this lawn ornament bunny
Steve Grimme explained to Bored Panda that he was trimming his grass when he was the large bird heading towards his house: "I went to the front and saw the hawk perched on my rain gutter. I started taking some photos to show my wife—it then came flying toward me within about 10 feet and very low and landed on my neighbor's gutter (the house who owns the bunny). It then took off again within 10 feet of me and flew across the street to another neighbors house. I figured “I” was in the way of something this bird was after, So I moved next to my truck in my driveway and stood very still."
"The bird flew back to the neighbors with the bunny. It then jumped down into the tree above the bunny. And then that’s when I was thinking this crazy bird is after that bunny for lunch. I started my video. It seemed to me when it was finally convinced this rabbit wasn’t going to run, it turned and looked around a bit. I imagined it was saying 'gee, I hope none of those other hawks saw me do that or I’ll be the brunt of a lot of jokes later!!!'"
Has wildlife ever messed with your lawn ornaments? If so, let us know in the comment section below!