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Discovered by Ian Knight and Christine Christopher in a lake near their residence in the market town of Ringwood in Hampshire, England. Edwina, as she was later called, had been attacked by her family and abandoned by her own mother. After days of rehabilitating her they failed to send her back to the wild, so they adopted the duck as pet.

Edwina lived with them for 22 years. It even made them celebrity after they named Edwina as oldest living duck in UK.  British Trust for Ornithology rendered Edwina the oldest recorded mallard in the United Kingdom. The Trust said that the oldest recorded age for a creature of that type in the wild in the country was 20 years and 5 months.

Twenty two years of being together is a very long time. The creature died at age 22. Much better than dying from a malignant Mesothelioma. A cancer mostly caused by asbestos.

Images: Daily Echo “Farewell to Edwina the duck, 22“.