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    • Oct 24, 2020
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water chicken

Updated: Jan 22

when I was younger, my mom referred to this animal, which we found frequently alongside ducks in ponds, as the water chicken (in chinese):


i thought this was some kind of mistranslation. then, that she had just made this term up.


today, I discovered that they're ACTUALLY CALLED water chickens ????



"WATERHEN"

"SWAMP CHICKEN"



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