Anybody else think that it’s oddly appropriate that the scientist making this discovery has the last name of “McCracken”?
Bigger, clearer much more disturbing pic of the duck…umm… well you know.
Ding dang duck d**k link
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v413/n6852/fig_tab/413128a0_F1.html
Hmm… brings to my mind the Asian character in Sixteen Candles “Long Duck Dong”
heehee
Yeah, apparently the female ducks choose a mate by flying over a pond full of males. The first male to pass out is the lucky guy 
So if I read that article correctly, they don’t know precisely why this duck has developed such a long penis. Me, I’m guessing it’s for sneaking up on the girl ducks. The guy duck can be half way across the lake, manuevering his ‘little general’ into position for a strike on some unsuspecting girl duck. Yup, stealth penis, that’s what I’m thinkin’.
I think it’s so he can work on his next conquest. You know, after he and Lady Duck 1 do the dirty deed, he’s all “Yea, I think it’s real, I care about you as a person, Of course I remember your name” with her, while his penis is slipping into the lady duck next to her.
Yay?
Wow! A duck with a 17 inch penis!
Gives new meaning to the phrase “Go fuck a duck.”
This reminds me very little of the time my friend and our ladies were dining at the Bistro restaurant in Bezerkeley. In the dining room, there were large taxidermied roosters under glass domes.
In the middle of some ordinary conversation, my friend abruptly pointed at one of the roosters and exclaimed;
“That the biggest cock I’ve ever seen!”
You could hear the vertebrae popping as the two women with us twisted their necks so fast as to self-induce whiplash. Us guys nearly passed out from laughing so hard.
My neighbor up the street has a four foot tall bronze rooster in his front yard. I foresee new opportunities to use this precious line.
[Scene fades as Zenster feverishly attempts to work a “duck you sucker” line into his post.]