This is the heartwarming moment a determined duck retrieved a boy's flip-flop and handed it back to him.<br /><br />The youngster was playing in a field when his shoe dropped down the small slope in a remote village in Quezon Province, the Philippines on August 15.<br /><br />Instead of clambering down through the mud, he watched as the white duck picked up his white rubber footwear. <br /><br />In the video, the determined duck drops the left flip-flop three times but keeps picking it back up in its beak while waddling up the bank.<br /><br />The duck finally reaches to the top and hands back the slipper to the relieved boy.<br /><br />Onlooker Myla Aguila said she was walking around the mountainous Sitio Madaguldol village when she noticed the endearing scene.<br /><br />She said: "I asked around, and people told me that the duck is not owned by the boy. But they come from that same small village so they must be friends.<br /><br />''I thought it was very sweet the way the duck kept picking up the shoe and giving it back to him.''<br /><br />The smart duck in the video is a Philippines duck, which is usually raised for commercial purposes, mainly because of their eggs.
