• 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.