Gay ducks

In a TED Talk posted online this month, Dutch biologist Kees Moeliker, a curator at the Natural History Museum Rotterdam, explains how he became the first scientist to document homosexual necrophilia in ducks. Sign up for the Live Science daily newsletter now.

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The research earned him the Ig Nobel biology prizeand now that Moeliker has made a name for himself in the realm of animal-sex oddities, people all over the duck send him their own peculiar observations. Megan Gannon. One is dead; one is alive; that must be necrophilia.

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I said, 'Something's wrong here. Live Science. She has watched dinosaur auctions, witnessed rocket launches, licked ancient pottery sherds in Cyprus and flown in zero gravity. On that day, when he looked outside for the building's latest victim, Moeliker saw the hapless male mallard with a live one nearby.

Moeliker was working in a new glass wing at the museum that turned out to be a "true bird killer. On June 5,Moeliker heard the bang that changed his life. The drakes will try their hardest to get with the ducks during mating season. The live male duck then mounted the dead one and started copulating with it.

NPR's "All Things Considered," calls Queer Ducks "teenager-friendly. Open menu Close main menu. Moeliker has used the anniversary of his strange discovery June 5 to hold a "Dead Duck Day" at the museum, where researchers discuss with the public new ways to prevent birds from colliding with windows.

Some naked mole rats are designated toilet cleaners, study suggests. Ready to take notes, the researcher went outside and watched the live duck trying to have sex with the corpse for 75 minutes before picking up the dead bird and freezing it.

I'm an ornithologist. And, look, both are of the male sex — homosexual necrophilia,'" Moeliker told the audience. Social Links Navigation. If they can't catch her they will rape other drakes (male mallards don't care about consent), drakes will also pair up and chase the mothers off of their eggs and incubate them themselves.

Her interests range from archaeology to space exploration, and she has a bachelor's degree in English and art history from New York University. Megan has been writing for Live Science and Space. Megan spent two years as a reporter on the national desk at NewsCore.