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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

How are they disgusting? When I see them they look quite cute.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 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 :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aside from their propensity to gang-rape, ducks are pretty cool. I’m not being edgy. Look it up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Drive by the duck farms in North Jersey and get back to me.