Father Duck

The Father Duck is a minor character in Disney's 75th and final Silly Symphonies short film, The Ugly Duckling. At the film's beginning, he and his mate the Mother Duck are anxiously awaiting the birth of their ducklings. As he paces back and forth, carving a trench into the ground, the sound of peeping calls him back to the nest where four adorable little ducklings have hatched. The joyous father showers his wife and new children with kisses until the final (and noticeably larger) egg hatches to reveal a peculiar looking duckling. The appearance of the strange duckling (with it's bulbous head and body, long neck, white coloring, large bill, and loud honking cry a sharp contrast to the short and pudgy yellow ducklings) angers the father and he engages the mother in a heated argument as the why the last duckling is so different from the others. The spat quickly escalates until the Father Duck blatantly accuses his mate of being the cause, prompting her to slap him with her wing. Thoroughly disgusted, the Father Duck storms off and leaves the mother to deal with the "ugly" duckling on her own. It is unknown if they ever reconciled as at the end of the film, he did not appear alongside the Mother or their ducklings.