True facts about THE DUCK

May 17, 2019 • 2:30 pm

I don’t think I’ve posted zefrank1’s video “True facts about the duck” before, and I can’t figure out why. It has some real biology in it—about duck penises, of course, and the antagonistic sexual selection that has led some species to evolve huge, corkscrew-shaped penises as well as corkscrew-shaped vaginas. As far as I know, every fact given in the video is true, and you’ll be suitably thrilled and/or horrified by the sake of large duck penises, and by the fact that they fall off at the end of each mating season (something I didn’t know).

15 thoughts on “True facts about THE DUCK”

  1. Much like a good bottle of wine why would you try and put a used cork back in the bottle?

  2. One notes the absence of Intelligent Design proponent[cist]s studying how evolution of the duck penis was guided by the Divine Agent. (One may also note a feeling of relief about this.)

    1. Relief nothing. I’d just love to see the Creationists obsessing over this one. The sight of a fundie preacher haranguing his flock over the length and twistiness of a duck dick would be priceless.

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  3. … you’ll be suitably thrilled and/or horrified by the sake of large duck penises, and by the fact that they fall off at the end of each mating season …

    Dang. Nature — red in tooth and … er, never mind.

  4. Not sure I needed to know that. Especially the bath tube full of hot dogs.

    1. I continue to be bothered by something I learned in my first Philosophy class: there isn’t any thing as a false fact. All facts are true. “True facts” about ducks is a redundancy.

  8. Never had a cheese soufflé? You’re missing out! But in my view, even better is a chocolate soufflé, which no self-respecting chocolate lover ought to miss. Even those, like me, who are take-it-or-leave-it about chocolate will enjoy a small ramekin of intense chocolate goodness. Fortunately they are a lot easier to make than is often thought. If you can make a roux, and can fold in whipped egg whites you can do it. After that only two rules: No peeking, and guests must be ready to eat it immediately. They look sad when allowed to cool and deflate (the soufflé, not the guests….)

  9. I knew about their impressive organs, and ‘non-corresponding’ equally impressive vaginas, and the ‘rapey’ behaviour, but I’m flabbergasted they are discarded afterwards and grown again next year.
    In that way it reminds us of the deer’s antlers.

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