Comment on Anon's neighbors have chickens

• ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Afaik it evolved like that for better raping. At least that’s what our biology teacher told us, after we had to watch a video about duck mating.

  There are also no real couples. Most of the time several males try to get it on with the same duck and it’s not rare that their object of desire drowns because they can’t wait their turn. Nature is fucked up.

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  • Wren@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ducks have diverse mating habits, like humans. They don’t have to rape, but they will when there’s overcrowding, males outcompete females, and/or they live in an urban environment where females lack the strength and space to escape.

    Otherwise, most ducks form seasonal pair bonds with new mates each year. Some come back to the same mate each year, which isn’t quite the same as monogamy since they don’t stick together when not fucking and rearing young. A few ducks will mate for life, and a lot of larger waterfowl, like geese and swans, are monogamous.

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    • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Thanks for the additional insights!

      I knew at least the part about swans. There was a huge pair of swans treating the small town they chose to live in as their personal garden and terrorizing people in traffic (pedestrians but people in cars as well). They were horrible but also treated like a holy cow, nobody was allowed to touch them and the official stance of the town was to let them be. So from time to time there were swan caused traffic jams and children knew to avoid them.

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      • Wren@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I haven’t even met them and I love those birds. Reminds me of Canada Gooses, the source of deep respect and utter annoyance as our avian fellow countrymen.

        One of my BFF’s is an environmental scientist who loves ducks, which means get loaded with duck facts that spill over onto others.

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That must be why geese and swans are so pissy and mean.

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      • Wren@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The lack of rape?

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