S’allright–the dog and cat weren’t dancing…
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I would vote for that duck. He sounds progressive.
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No, Progressive doesn’t have the duck. AFLAC does.
I knew there was something off about that duck!
[QUOTE=Tenar]
Link, please? I searched unsuccessfully.
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Not to flog a dead horse or anything, but this links to the second Dope thread on the phenomenon of the Dutch homosexual necrophiliac rapist mallard [A.K.A. avian davian behavior]; on the second page there’s a link to the *original * Dope thread, which runs to six pages.
Thomas Hobbes didn’t know the half of it, did he?
[QUOTE=Tamerlane]
Not SD, but here is the original paper ( pdf ):
http://www.nmr.nl/nmr/binary/retrieveFile?instanceid=16&itemid=2574
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Well, I read the paper, thinking it was some kind of joke. But it seems a straightforward paper, recounting the facts.
The question being: WTF? Some biologist (or somesuch) witnesses a weird occurence and… writes a paper?
I don’t question the duck’s behavior. I do question the scientist’s behavior.