“Duckweed” is named such because ducks like to eat it. I believe aquatic plants like that are a pretty big part of their diet.
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Eiri@lemmy.ca 7 months agoI’ll be honest I personally assumed ducks only ate fish.
grue@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Shareni@programming.dev 7 months ago
Wrong shaped beak for that, shovel instead of spear
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Shovels work fine for itty-bitty fishes, since there’s a lid to keep them from splashing out. Also water bugs as well as of course plants.
Shareni@programming.dev 7 months ago
They work, but aren’t they primarily for plants and bugs?
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I’m not an expert duckist, so:
www.ducks.ca/stories/…/what-do-wild-ducks-eat/
Genius@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Pelican.
Shareni@programming.dev 7 months ago
How is this not a spear?
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ricecake@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Less the long and narrow and more how it’s used.
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A fishing net is also long and narrow, but we usually wouldn’t call it a spear because that’s not how you use it. If you spear something with your net you’ve made a mistake.
Personally, I’d say a duck beak is “spoonish”, and the fish hunters are “grabby”. Some are tweezery, and some are tongy.
Genius@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Spears are sharp.