# What the hell is wrong with ducks today? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 29, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-ducks-today/210165 "2003-10-29T03:41:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-ducks-today/210165/41 "2003-10-29T17:41:14Z")
Well, that kinda thing might fly in _Rotterdam_, but our Mallards over here in the good old US of A, red blooded Merican Mallards, well, they don’t go for that. Canadian Geese? Sure, I could see that. Thems evil little bastards with poops the size of squirrels, for that alone I support the Canadian invasion plan, but Merican Mallards? Nope. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-ducks-today/210165/42 "2003-10-29T18:01:29Z")
> [@](#): > > Stop. This thread is giving me a woody. Would that be a [wood duck](http://www.spcnp.org/images/Male%20Wood%20Duck%201.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-ducks-today/210165/43 "2003-10-29T21:55:06Z")
Well, now I can say that I learned something today. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-ducks-today/210165/44 "2003-10-29T22:49:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AtomicDog \* > **Now I know why a duck’s quack doesn’t echo…** It might, if one duck stuck its bill into the cloaca of another, dead, duck and quacked into that. It’s worth checking to find out! ---
**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:** [October 29, 2003, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-ducks-today/210165/45 "2003-10-29T23:21:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Smeghead \* > \*\*It might, if one duck stuck its bill into the cloaca of another, dead, duck and quacked into that. It’s worth checking to find out! \*\* Quacked up, in other words? ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-ducks-today/210165/46 "2003-10-29T23:23:27Z")
This davian behavior ain’t just for the birds… (from Meshaka Walter E Jr. Anuran Davian behavior: A Darwinian dilemma. _Florida Scientist_. 59(2). 1996. 74-75.) Davian behavior was reported for two anurans, the Cuban treefrog (_Osteopilus septentrionalis_) and the southern toad (_Bufo terrestris_). The episodes were initiated by automobiles having killed the females with which the males amplected. Because of high probability of mortality on the road and no chance of successful reproduction, this behavior reduces the fitness of participating males… “_I found love on a two way street and lost it on a lonely highway…ribbit_” ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-ducks-today/210165/47 "2003-10-29T23:48:39Z")
_… You’ll get a very nasty suck, If you muck around with a duck! Yes, a man’s best friend is his duck!_ There’s a Goodies song for almost every occasion. Stop looking at me like that, I’m perfectly harmless. ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2003, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-ducks-today/210165/48 "2003-10-30T00:15:42Z")
I humping your dead duck. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2003, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-ducks-today/210165/49 "2003-10-30T00:59:35Z")
**Burns** : Smithers…you think maybe my power plant killed those ducks? **Smithers** : There’s no ‘maybe’ about it, sir. **Burns** : [sniffles] Excellent. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2003, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-ducks-today/210165/50 "2003-10-30T01:08:02Z")
why did i know this was going to be the link? I know too much about duck necrophelia for my own good… ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-ducks-today/210165/51 "2003-10-30T01:38:02Z")
\ And this bird you cannot change… ---
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2003, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-ducks-today/210165/52 "2003-10-30T01:46:27Z")
Actually, I found this linked on another message board. But still, it is disturbing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-ducks-today/210165.md?page=2)