I’m looking for options on ducks specifically. As in the bird. What’s your hottest duck take?

  • winkly@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    I was shocked when I learned that male ducks have corkscrew penises and that ducks mostly reproduce through gangrape 😳

    These facts changed my opinion of ducks

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      10 days ago

      That’s not really a controversial opinion. It would be controversial to say: “don’t judge an entire species that acts out evolved behaviors and instincts based on human concepts!” People often justify hunting a species to extinction based on having anthropomorphized them first and identified a “character flaw”. They are wild animals, literally and officially dinosaurs. It’s your own fault for seeing them as cute little disney characters in the first place. I mean, many species (including humans) literally kill babies of other animals and eat them raw. I don’t do that and don’t eat meat, but I can still appreciate cats, who do.

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      10 days ago

      The corkscrew penis is wild because I’m under the impression that it evolved that way so that it would be harder for the female ducks to escape, that is so fucked up.

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        It’s weirder and more depraved than that: their penis explodes out of them in what is called explosive eversion and they have to regrow them every year. This is so they can find their way down the maze of duck vaginas

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          10 days ago

          Where do you get the need to regrow them part? I didn’t see anything about that in the linked article. And the “explosive” part just means they erect them really fast.

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    9 days ago

    That although the ducks at the duck pond are free and can be taken home… Its difficult to keep them at your home unless you have a tempting duck habitat i. e. a pond and lots of grubs, worms and reed plants.

    Please don’t take the free ducks home if you plan on keeping them in your spare room. They will not be happy and will let you know this in there own duckish manor.

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      10 days ago

      I always wonder about the context of this exchange… What’s the scenario in which pointing out the existence of legs convinces someone that they are in fact looking at ducks?

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        10 days ago

        You’re chilling with your buddy and see duck shaped objects in the distance. From your vantage point, the uniquely distinct itty bitty legs of the ducks are clearly visible and the facthood of the ducks (duckhood) is undeniable to you. Your much taller buddy cannot see the legs from his angle and thus a legend is born.

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          10 days ago

          Good try, but somehow we need to account for why they DON’T look like ducks when you can’t see the legs, but suddenly DO look like ducks when you get a glimpse of gams.

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    10 days ago

    Its enjoyable to go out late autumn to shoot them in the head while aflight.