Quacking ducks !

Factual Questions
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it seems there is an idea out there that a "ducks quack ‘’ will not echo. I seem to remember reading an article maybe a year ago or more that disproved that belief . i think it was the U of Minnesota who did the study(too much time on thier hands-mine 2). Can you find the study ? I have looked and cant find the article.
thanks!
cs.

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It’s not true.

http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.htm

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_071.html

And welcome to the SDMB!

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Be welcome, enjoy your stay.

Do a search for quack and echo - you’ll find lots of threads about it.

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Verifying the commonsensical acoustic properties of waterfowl since 1973!
(It’s taking longer than we thought.)

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Yikes! From only one week ago, the following General Question:

Does a duck’s quack echo? (9/23/2003)

Also check out these threads:
Does a ducks quack really not echo? If so why?
Is it true that when ducks quack, there is no echo?
Does a duck’s quack echo?
Duck Quacks and Echoes
Duck quacks don’t echo? and other “facts”
A duck’s quack does not echo

Obviously a perniscious, vile, and well-entrenched rumor, this non-quacking is.

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thank you all !

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A duck’s quack willnot echo…

…in space.

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That’s because in space nobody can hear you quack.

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      • It’s not all ducks, it’s only the blind and bald cave ducks.
        ~
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u have bald cave ducks in Il. to ?

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What about us ducks who go for the combover?

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It’s been three weeks, so here it is again.
A duck waddles into a drug store to pick up his prescription for web softener cream.
The druggist asks if he will be using a credit card, or cash.
The duck says…

‘Put it on my bill’.

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Cow-orkers also go for the combover.

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whether your from the orker’s guild or fowl in nature … it’s all in the stroke … u have to know how to combb it

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zut, you left out:

The quackery of Freud
and
Was Sigmund Freud really a “quack”?
:slight_smile:

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I couldn’t duck this thread if I tried. Oh, this evil web feet we weave.

What did one duck say to the other duck?

Can you hear me now?

AFLAC!

:smiley: