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Friday, October 07, 2005


All last night I lie (lay?) awake, tossing and turning, hopelessly wondering about the first ever documented case of homosexual necrophilia in a duck. Thankfully, tonight I can get some sleep.
On 5 June 1995 an adult male mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) collided with the glass façade of the Natuurmuseum Rotterdam and died. An other drake mallard raped the corpse almost continuously for 75 minutes. Then the author disturbed the scene and secured the dead duck. Dissection showed that the rape-victim indeed was of the male sex. It is concluded that the mallards were engaged in an ‘Attempted Rape Flight’ that resulted in the first described case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard.
I have absolutely no idea what to think about this, but I will give it up for the rapist duck. He didn't do it half assed. He stuck it out for 75 minutes. Kinda makes ya wonder about the person that had to watch and time it, though.



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