Ducklings Die in Pool Drain At American Indian Museum
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On Saturday afternoon on the Mall, passersby watched as a mother duck and her offspring paddled in a series of man-made pools outside the National Museum of the American Indian. The five ducklings died when they were pulled into a drain... A museum spokeswoman said ducklings have died in the fountain machinery four or five times since the museum opened in September 2004.

And the money quote:
"We hate to see when visitors actually witness them kind of being sucked away."