既會讀書又會看球賽的鴨寶寶

He was shunned by his feathered family when he was just days old. Now, this ugly duckling has found an unlikely father figure to replace them, Barrie Hayman.

據英國《每日郵報》9月9日報道，出生沒幾天，它就被家族遺棄了。而如今，這隻醜小鴨找到了一個代替它親人位置的“別樣”爸爸——巴里 海曼。

　 The fairytale friendship was forged when Mr. Hayman rescued the distressed duck, named Star, from his incubator.

他們之間的這段童話般的友誼始於海曼先生從孵化器中解救出這隻名叫“星星”的可憐小鴨子。

He noticed Star was panicked when he started doing a manic "waddling dance" in an attempt to escape his hostile siblings.

他發現星星時，它正恐懼又狂躁地跳着“鴨步舞”，試圖躲避那些對它懷有敵意的兄弟姐妹們。

But Mr. Hayman says he knew Star was different, so he plucked the baby duckling out of the incubator and took him home.

但是海曼先生說，他看出了星星的與衆不同，所以就從孵化器中抱出了這隻鴨寶寶，把它領回家了。

Since then, the Indian Runner duck has become inseparable from 65-year-old Mr. Hayman.

從那以後，這隻印度跑鴨與65歲的海曼先生就成了形影不離的好朋友。

The 11-week-old bird follows him everywhere, from the pub to the supermarket, and even watches the rugby with him.

不論他走到哪，這隻11周大的鴨子都跟着他，從酒吧到超市，甚至還和他一起觀看橄欖球比賽。

He said:"When he was younger, I would put him in my pocket while I did my shopping. Now he's bigger, he happily waits in the foyer of my local Tesco as I nip in. He's not fazed at all." Mr. Hayman, who used to teach scuba diving in Australia, began doing a job of looking after ducks six years ago.

海曼先生曾在澳大利亞當過輕便潛水教練，6年前開始從事照看鴨子的工作。他說：“在它還小的時候，我逛超市時就把它放在我的口袋裏。現在它長大了，所以當我進去購物時，它就守在我們那兒樂購超市的大廳裏，自得其樂，一點也不慌亂。”

"He comes to the pub, where everyone loves him and we'll be watching his first world cup together next week，" he said.

他說:“它去酒吧，所有人都喜歡它，下週我們還要一起看世界盃，它長這麼大，這還是頭一回呢。”

Star now has a Facebook page, under the name Star Hayman, which lists his favorite books as The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, Animal Farm and Charlotte's Web.

現在，星星還有了臉譜主頁，名叫“星星 海曼”。上面列舉了它最喜歡的書，有《傑米瑪鴨的故事》、《動物農場》和《夏洛特的網》。

"He is 11 weeks old now and going through the ugly duckling stage, but I know he will be magnificent soon，"Mr. Hayman said.

　海曼先生說：“它現在11周了，還是隻醜小鴨，但是，我相信它很快就會華麗變身的。”