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What's your most controversial opinion about ducks? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 5 hours ago by tottle@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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

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[–] winkly@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

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

[–] Quicky@piefed.social 4 points 3 hours ago

I witnessed this once at a lake in New Zealand, when a bunch of ducks were gang raping this one female. My girlfriend at the time demanded that I go into the lake and try and break it up.

Yeah nah, that’s their hood. I ain’t getting involved.

[–] BuckFutter@timeyak.com 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yep doesn’t get more fucked up than this one, it’s up there with dragonflies.

[–] tottle@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

What's up with dragonflies?

[–] BuckFutter@timeyak.com 3 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Their mating ritual is brutal

Dragonfly mating is a competitive “contact sport” where a male identifies a female, subdues her in flight, and then links to her so they form a wheel formation to mate. Because females may mate with multiple partners, males may also scoop out or remove earlier sperm and guard the female afterward.

The first step in the mating process is for the male dragonfly to subdue the female. The typical scenario looks like this. While in flight, the male approaches the female from behind, grabs hold of her thorax with his legs, and sometimes bites her in an effort to quickly subdue her. Pulling his abdomen forward, he uses his anal appendages (cerci) to hold her by the neck while continuing to fly with her in a formation referred to as tandem linkage.

The Dragonfly Mating Game - A Contact Sport

[–] Drekaridill@lemmy.wtf 3 points 55 minutes ago (1 children)

"he uses his anal appendages (cerci) to hold her by the neck" is certainly a collection of words.

[–] BuckFutter@timeyak.com 2 points 49 minutes ago

Yah there was a deliberate choice made when using that vernacular lol.

[–] tottle@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

god damn

[–] BuckFutter@timeyak.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Thats an expected response lol

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] SmokeInFog@midwest.social 5 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] workerONE@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

What the duck?

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago

Nature is so wierd. A strange force where persistence and randomness intersect in all sorts of ways.