He quickly settled down in a large puddle near a road that the Niue fire service later topped up with water, the ABC reported. “Someone said, ‘Turn right past the duck’ and then the whole story came out, the only duck on Niue,” she told the ABC. He was later dubbed the “world’s loneliest duck” for his solitary existence. Trevor Mallard, the speaker of New Zealand’s House of Representatives after whom the late duck was named, offered his condolences. “Deepest sympathy to the people of Niue from the Parliament of New Zealand,” Mallard wrote on the duck’s Facebook death notice.

Source: The Express Tribune January 28, 2019 08:37 UTC