In the past, farm animals like pigs and even turkeys have eased their nervous owners by accompanying them on airplanes. Now it's one duck's turn to sit in coach.

On Sunday, Twitter user Mark Essig was delighted when he discovered a duck on his flight from Charlotte to Asheville. Daniel, a sweet emotional support duck accompanied his owner and hung out in the isle near Essig's seat. Essig proceeded to live-tweet his flight with this new feathered friend, so we could all go along for the ride.

Daniel appeared to be more human than duck when he sat in a passenger seat, loved looking out the window at the clouds and wore little duck shoes.

My seatmate, CLT➡️AVL, is this handsome duck named Daniel. His gentle quacking eases the sadness of leaving #SFA16. pic.twitter.com/iDKWCceAFi

— Mark Essig (@mark_essig) October 16, 2016

It seemed that Daniel the duck offered emotional support to Essig as well as his owner during their flight together.

Daniel, the duck on my flight, likes to look at the clouds. pic.twitter.com/YiOjCvZ0NO

— Mark Essig (@mark_essig) October 16, 2016

Here is a 3-second video of Daniel the emotional support duck. His human says, 'and wagging? That's happy.' pic.twitter.com/WElW9d827o

— Mark Essig (@mark_essig) October 17, 2016

Fans of Daniel the #EmotionalSupportDuck should be aware that pigs are cool too. I wrote a book about them: https://t.co/jp1vHOtEQu pic.twitter.com/uSMb1yzPkz

— Mark Essig (@mark_essig) October 17, 2016

Daniel has confirmed that not all birds are terrifying, look great in red and wag their tail-feathers when they're happy.

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