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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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[โ€“] 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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  • [โ€“] 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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  • [โ€“] 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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  • [โ€“] 1 point 14 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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