Dead Duck Day — June 5th — is coming. The short, open-air ceremony next to the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam is open free to the public, including ducks. Please note the day in your diary. Dead Duck Day commemorates the sudden and dramatic death of the mallard duck that entered the scientific literature as […]
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Dead ducks and pubic lice at the TED talks
Today in Rotterdam, Improbable Research European Bureau Chief (and Ig Nobel Prize winner) Kees Moeliker discussed (while battling a head cold) his research on homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck, the decline of pubic lice, and other remarkable animal behavior. This was at TEDxRotterdam. Here’s video of the talk:
Appreciating the homosexual necrophiliac duck discovery
Rue89 gives a detailed appreciation of Kees Moeliker’s discovery of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck: Hollande : le colvert homo abuse du canard claqué Ou comment un cas de nécrophilie homosexuelle chez les canards colverts a été observé. La revue érotique L’imparfaite revient sur cette étrange première.Il est 17h55 quand le chercheur C. W. […]
Dead Duck Day – June 5
Tomorrow, June 5, is Dead Duck Day. On June 5, 1995, a mallard duck slammed into the window of the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam, the first big step on its journey into history. Kees Moeliker, the museum’s curator, subsequently published the first scientifically recorded description of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck (click here […]