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

  • winkly@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    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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      17 hours 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.