India, Nov. 9 -- Two domesticated ducklings appeared out of the blue at the regulator end of the Sukhna lake last week. Though walkers tried hard to get the ducklings to take to water, the little ones were not interested. Strangely, the stray dogs, too, were not interested in gobbling the juicy tidbits.

The ducklings had been surreptitiously released at the lake. The possibility of it being the handiwork of those who want domesticated ducks back at the lake cannot be ruled out. Public memory is short but recall those ghastly days of December 2014 when 150 such domesticated ducks/geese were culled by dislocating their necks and by clubbing them to death following the detection of the High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI) of the H5N1 s...