A pelican is flying over a pond one morning...

...when she spots a small group of minnows, abandoned by their parents. Filled with pity for the scared little things, she scoops them up and takes them back to her home, where she raises them as her own.

A year later, a sparrow arrives at her home and tells her that the father of the minnows has demanded she return them to the pond so he can spend time with his estranged children. The pelican, who loves her adopted children very much, protests, and it is brought before the animal's court.

When the verdict arrives, the order is that the minnows be returned to their pond, as the judge has declared the pelican an unfish mother.

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