Annals of Improbable Research JUL | AUG 2021 (vol 27, number 4)

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Special Issue: Ducks

The Turducken Experiments
The Meatloaf Test
Ducks and Water

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Contents

Special Section: Ducks

Uranium for Ducks, Please*
Ducks and Walking*
Steaming and Dabbling*
Ducks and Water*
May We Recommend: Duck Death by Spaghetti*
The Turducken Experiment*
Duck or Not Duck?
Ducks’ Body Parts*
Duck Droppings*

Improbable Research Reviews

Improbable Research: Laundry Scent, Blurred Flowers, Backwards Speech*
Medical: Jaw-Lock, Cranial Chopsticks, Meatloaf & Corpse*
Icky Cutesy Research Review: Whoop, Whoop, Paintbrush*
Ig® and Beyond: Stings and Fetishes*

News & Notes

AIR Vents (letters from our readers):Two Mallards and Maybe a Horse
Teachers’Guide
Ig Nobel Limericks: Dog Translator, Hell Finder*
Editorial Board
Index of Special Issues
Unclassified Ads

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Artist’s rendition of two photographs from the study “Elaborate Vaginas and Long Phalli: Post-copulatory Sexual Selection in Birds.” (See page 26) Artwork by Nan Swift.