# Do ducks quack at night?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 3, 2007, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-ducks-quack-at-night/402661 "2007-05-03T20:14:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-ducks-quack-at-night/402661/41 "2017-01-30T18:30:17Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > One of those bastards bit me A gØØse once bit my sister. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > Only to be aroused several times overnight by the wind, a squirrel, or perhaps the motion of the Moon. Those geese, flocking all night long! {though, to be fair, you could probably describe teenage boys in the same vein} No wonder they are bitey all day long - they can’t get a good nights sleep! ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-ducks-quack-at-night/402661/42 "2017-01-30T23:41:32Z")
One evening I got really annoyed with a fake ‘doctor’ and tried to punch him, but missed. This shows that quacks duck at night. :smack: (ducks and runs … geddit?) ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-ducks-quack-at-night/402661/43 "2017-02-01T09:10:54Z")
But but but but… Ducks **don’t** quack in response to predation do they? They duck down in the reads and hope some other duck will get taken by the fox. If you try to startle one, it won’t say anything. Completely unlike hens, which rush around like the sky is falling, alerting the rest of the flock. When and why do ducks quack? Are all other ducks different from the dusks I’ve met? ---
**Author:** ![steadfor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/57b2e6/32.png) [@steadfor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steadfor)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-ducks-quack-at-night/402661/44 "2017-02-01T18:20:06Z")
The real question is, if ducks quack at night, do they echo? that’s for real important question ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-ducks-quack-at-night/402661/45 "2017-02-01T18:36:22Z")
Which has been asked at least three times in this thread . . . ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-ducks-quack-at-night/402661/46 "2017-02-01T18:47:24Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I really wonder why Bell Labs (as they then still were) ever settled on that noise for a ringer? It was utterly unsuitable for its mission. They were visionaries paving the way for [this](http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/ihvg/). ---
**Author:** ![PYANAGAWA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c89c15/32.png) [@PYANAGAWA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PYANAGAWA)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-ducks-quack-at-night/402661/47 "2017-02-10T10:26:59Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > **Colibri** > > Well, they’d better not call me at 3:00 a.m. !!! :mad: > > (From now on, I’ll make damned sure that I take the phone off the hook before I go to sleep.) How did they get your number? ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-ducks-quack-at-night/402661/48 "2017-02-10T11:26:19Z")
Via a bill. Made the call. Not sure if it was Arkansas or Louisiana. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-ducks-quack-at-night/402661/49 "2017-02-10T15:44:36Z")
Moderator Note **PYANAGAWA** , we ask that old threads in GQ only be bumped to add new factual information. Since this does not, I’m closing it. Colibri General Questions Moderator [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-ducks-quack-at-night/402661.md?page=2)