In Popular Culture
Beatrix Potter's depiction of Jemima Puddle-Duck (pub. 1908) with a mostly upright, elongated posture, being an errant laying duck not trusted to incubate its own eggs, suggests that the actual duck she was based on, at her Hill Top Farm, Cumbria, was a Runner or derivative thereof.
Ferdinand from the 1995 film Babe is an Indian Runner Duck.
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