It's a trend that appears to have been started in 2018 by 10-year-old Abby Davis, who hid 50 ducks aboard a Carnival Cruise just for fun. We don't know if her parents approved of it, but we do ...

Duck hiding and hunting on Royal Caribbean ships has become so popular that a Facebook group, Royal Caribbean Cruising Ducks, has been created to support it. It has more than 57,000 members.

Hiding tiny rubber ducks has become a popular practice on cruise ships. Despite calls to ban it, Carnival hasn't. Their brand is tied to "fun," and ducks align with that.