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What's your most controversial opinion about ducks? (lemmy.ca)
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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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[–] 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (15 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

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 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.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago (4 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

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 18 hours ago*

    It's not talked about in the paper I linked. Aside from that, it appears that I've remembered it incorrectly or it was misreported when I learned about it. It appears that their penis simply shrinks and is almost vestigial until the next breeding season, when it grows again and gets bigger depending on how many males are in the area

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (6 children)

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

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    What's up with dragonflies?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (4 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

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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