• DuffmanOfTheCosmos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I had a friend as a kid who had ducks as and I can answer this. They poop. Everywhere. A lot. Also they’re loud as hell sometimes.

    • Waffles@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      My neighbor has ducks and they are indeed disgusting and charmingly cute. I’ve seen one get up to follow me for food and she was sitting in a large pile of her waste. Also duck rape is awful. Some have died from the duck gang rapes I was told :(

    • meyotch@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Aside from their propensity to gang-rape, ducks are pretty cool. I’m not being edgy. Look it up.

      • sunbeam60@lemmy.oneEnglish
        22·
        1 year ago

        I think you do transfer too much! Lots of animals have a mating ritual that involves overpowering a mating partner. It’s not pleasant to look at, but then neither is watching a chimp rip an unborn fawn out of a deer, while the deer is still alive. Nature is nature and there are lots of situations where there is direct violence between males and females as part of mating:

        • Hyenas, where female hyenas are larger than males, necessitating them to submit to female dominance during mating.
        • Many species of spiders and praying mantis where the female eats the male after mating.
        • Antelopes, where males often overpower females before mating.
        • Dolphins, where groups of males isolate females using herding techniques.
        • Hermaphrodite slugs where one partner will eat the penis of the other partner to prevent it mating further afterwards.