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Pretending to be a Duck

March 18th 2008 21:00
Female duck at rocky national park
Photo by K. Iee. Used in accordance with the terms of Wikimedia Commons’ GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
Have you ever been to a duck pond and started making quacking noises? If so, you will know that the nearby ducks will stop what they’re doing and tilt their heads to the side to try to work out where the sound is coming from. They don’t seem to notice it is the human standing in front of them. I have done this many times and even when I am standing there with my mouth open they seem to think it’s coming from another duck.


I made this discovery with my ducks, Brown-o and White-o. One day I started quacking at them and time stood still as they stood, frozen to the ground, their ears keenly attuned to the sound.

“But ducks don’t have ears,” you might be thinking. Well, may be they don’t have outer ears but they certainly have inner ears. My sister used to pull their feathers apart with her fingers and she located the tiny holes on the side of their heads where their inner ears were located.

The only other time when Brown-o and White-o stood frozen was whenever a crow would fly overhead. They were terrified of crows, although the crows never attacked them.

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