I was just gonna say that. That is definitely not the pic from the event in question.
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From the little I did read to try and verify this, it sounds like it DID happen, but, as usual, the report seems a little misleading.
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I'm not going to get into graphic detail, but keep in mind the subject matter at hand before continuing on
Essentially the whole reason the guy was watching this in the first place was because the duck in question smashed into his window at full speed and died.
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He went to investigate the sound and found the duck dead on the ground. A single other male duck landed and... well, got violent with the corpse. Tbh I Half wonder if the first duck wasn't trying to escape the second duck when it crashed into the window. Homosexual rape in ducks isn't listed as uncommon and they have been known to attack each other during flight, so it seems likely.
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The second duck's behaviour following this is very aggressive and disturbing. I also suspect it didn't fully realize (or care) that the first duck was even dead. It had literally JUST died when the assault began. The attack went on for 75 minutes, however..
The live duck assaulted the dead duck three times, and only reluctantly backed off when the researcher in question approached to retrieve the corpse, at which point it apparently made a few "conversation calls."
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Speculations on my part: Since it likely wasn't attempting to talk to the researcher (I wouldn't think), I'd speculate that it was trying to get the attention of the dead male duck, which is part of why I said I don't think it realized the other duck had died. Additionally, Since the researcher didn't go to investigate initially, just based his analysis on the fact the dead duck wasn't moving, there is a slight possibility the initial impact perhaps didn't kill the duck completely, and the duck could potentially have died during the course of the assault instead.. But that's just a possibility and I have no actual idea. Not that any of this means the duck wouldn't have engaged in necrophilia anyway, just some things I noticed
As a side note, I did get this google headline out of it, which is arguably one of the more bizarre ones I've seen in awhile:
"Researchers swallowing shrews without chewing and homosexual, necrophiliac ducks"
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And now I think that's been more than enough time dedicated to necrophiliac duck rape for today
I've read said paper a few years ago. First duck flew right in a window, died, started getting raped after like 1 hour if I remember correctly, then another joined.
And he didn't win just any prize, he won an IgNobel, aka the ridiculous version of Nobels, given to discoveries that "make you laugh and then think".
Seriously worth the read.
One part of me wants to be like "of all the posts you'd have necro'd you went with THIS one?" And the other part of me is like "of course this is the post that got necro'd"
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From the little I did read to try and verify this, it sounds like it DID happen, but, as usual, the report seems a little misleading.
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I'm not going to get into graphic detail, but keep in mind the subject matter at hand before continuing on
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He went to investigate the sound and found the duck dead on the ground. A single other male duck landed and... well, got violent with the corpse. Tbh I Half wonder if the first duck wasn't trying to escape the second duck when it crashed into the window. Homosexual rape in ducks isn't listed as uncommon and they have been known to attack each other during flight, so it seems likely.
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The second duck's behaviour following this is very aggressive and disturbing. I also suspect it didn't fully realize (or care) that the first duck was even dead. It had literally JUST died when the assault began. The attack went on for 75 minutes, however..
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Speculations on my part: Since it likely wasn't attempting to talk to the researcher (I wouldn't think), I'd speculate that it was trying to get the attention of the dead male duck, which is part of why I said I don't think it realized the other duck had died. Additionally, Since the researcher didn't go to investigate initially, just based his analysis on the fact the dead duck wasn't moving, there is a slight possibility the initial impact perhaps didn't kill the duck completely, and the duck could potentially have died during the course of the assault instead.. But that's just a possibility and I have no actual idea. Not that any of this means the duck wouldn't have engaged in necrophilia anyway, just some things I noticed
"Researchers swallowing shrews without chewing and homosexual, necrophiliac ducks"
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And now I think that's been more than enough time dedicated to necrophiliac duck rape for today
And he didn't win just any prize, he won an IgNobel, aka the ridiculous version of Nobels, given to discoveries that "make you laugh and then think".
Seriously worth the read.