# Quacking ducks ! **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 1, 2003, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quacking-ducks/204938 "2003-10-01T16:29:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![csalathi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecc23a/32.png) [@csalathi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/csalathi)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quacking-ducks/204938/1 "2003-10-01T16:29:24Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quacking-ducks/204938/2 "2003-10-01T16:32:46Z")
It’s not true. [http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.htm](http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.htm) [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5\_071.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_071.html) And welcome to the SDMB! ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quacking-ducks/204938/3 "2003-10-01T17:52:48Z")
Be welcome, enjoy your stay. Do a search for quack and echo - you’ll find lots of threads about it. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quacking-ducks/204938/4 "2003-10-01T17:59:03Z")
THE STRAIGHT DOPE[sup]TM[/sup] Verifying the commonsensical acoustic properties of waterfowl since 1973! (It’s taking longer than we thought.) ---
**Author:** ![zut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zut/32/2875_2.png) [@zut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zut)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quacking-ducks/204938/5 "2003-10-01T18:21:34Z")
Yikes! From only one week ago, the following General Question: [Does a duck’s quack echo? (9/23/2003)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=213057&highlight=duck+quack) Also check out these threads: [Does a ducks quack really not echo? If so why?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=182193&highlight=duck+quack) [Is it true that when ducks quack, there is no echo?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=164304&highlight=duck+quack) [Does a duck’s quack echo?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=151008&highlight=duck+quack) [Duck Quacks and Echoes](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=113825&highlight=duck+quack) [Duck quacks don’t echo? and other “facts”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=108427&highlight=duck+quack) [A duck’s quack does not echo](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=72344&highlight=duck+quack) Obviously a perniscious, vile, and well-entrenched rumor, this non-quacking is. ---
**Author:** ![csalathi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecc23a/32.png) [@csalathi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/csalathi)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quacking-ducks/204938/6 "2003-10-01T18:31:39Z")
thank you all ! ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quacking-ducks/204938/7 "2003-10-01T19:59:05Z")
A duck’s quack willnot echo… …in space. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quacking-ducks/204938/8 "2003-10-01T21:40:16Z")
That’s because in space nobody can hear you quack. ---
**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quacking-ducks/204938/9 "2003-10-01T21:58:54Z")
- - - It’s not all ducks, it’s only the blind and bald cave ducks. ~ ---
**Author:** ![csalathi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecc23a/32.png) [@csalathi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/csalathi)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quacking-ducks/204938/10 "2003-10-01T23:23:28Z")
u have bald cave ducks in Il. to ? ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quacking-ducks/204938/11 "2003-10-01T23:26:58Z")
What about us ducks who go for the combover? ---
**Author:** ![ltfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@ltfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ltfire)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quacking-ducks/204938/12 "2003-10-01T23:29:20Z")
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’. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quacking-ducks/204938/13 "2003-10-01T23:31:01Z")
Cow-orkers also go for the combover. ---
**Author:** ![csalathi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecc23a/32.png) [@csalathi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/csalathi)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quacking-ducks/204938/14 "2003-10-02T01:36:57Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quacking-ducks/204938/15 "2003-10-02T03:01:32Z")
**zut** , you left out: [The quackery of Freud](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=205386) and [Was Sigmund Freud really a “quack”?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=204839) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quacking-ducks/204938/16 "2003-10-02T05:22:58Z")
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! 😃