Kees Moeliker: How a dead duck changed my life
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One afternoon, Kees Moeliker got a research opportunity few ornithologists would wish for: A flying duck slammed into his glass office building, died, and then ... what happened next would change his life. [Note: Contains graphic images and descriptions of sexual behavior in animals.] TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more. Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted.com/translate Follow TED news on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tednews Like TED on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector
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Ducks have particularly aggressive sexual behavior. I have lived on a boat for 8 years and I have witnessed many times, duck gang rapes, including homosexual gang rapes with as many as 10 individual males. Ducks seem to copulate for more than procreation as I just witnessed this morning, on January 20th, -3 celsius, ducks copulating in the freezing water. For what purpose? Surely any hatchlings would perish in the freezing temps or starve from limited food source.
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quero mandar alguma coisa de pato pra ele kkk
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It's so funny and entertaining
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Omg, if only all speakers were so, ah, entertaining.
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As you can see at 1:30 the dead duck looks like a female mallard. Males shed their colourful plumage in the summer, and look like females for a while. Males are also known for raping females, so the live duck assumed that the dead one was a female.
Case solved by a duck expert :D -
Met z'n Albert Heijn-tas.
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love how he's standing there with a shopping bag xD
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Gotta love the internet.
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"Scientifically Accurate Duck Tales" brought me here
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You're right. They should whistle and throw empty bottles onto the stage.
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In that live duck's whole lifetime? Or are we talking about in one afternoon? What's the time parameter here?
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There is a video here on youtube that shows the same behavior among cats. I believe the cat in the the video does not try reanimate the other one but it tries to initiate a copulation. watch?v=Y-A2cCESNbQ I speculate that these animals confuse the position of the carcass with a mating position.
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You should publish your results ~:)
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n christians say homeosexualls arnt natural , well neather is sex with the dead.
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Comedy depends a lot on expectations. I watched a comedy movie a while back... At least it was marketed as a comedy, and the trailer made it look like a decent comedy. It barely made me chuckle was very let down. When there is no expectation of humor, and someone does or says something even slightly humorous, like a doctor who's good with jokes. Its hilarious because its somewhere your not expecting to laugh, so a moderate joke becomes pretty good.
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nice try
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I know i am too
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He's dutch.
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It's not nature until Disney makes a film about it.