http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,
9865,1432991,00.html “Rather startled, I watched this scene from
close quarters behind the window until 19.10 hours during which
time (75 minutes) I made some photographs and the mallard almost
continuously copulated his dead congener.” 23:28
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Sobriquet Magazine's mediaconsumption (www.sobriquetmagazine.com):
… forcibly picked into the back, the base of the bill and mostly into the back of the head of the dead mallard for about two minutes, then mounted the corpse and started to copulate, with great force, almost continuously picking the side of the head.'" [Full Story] …
Evolution (evolutionism.blogspot.com):
… Mr Moeliker was informed of an American case involving a squirrel and a dead partner, although in this case it is not known whether the necrophilia observed was homosexual or not as the victim had been run over by a truck shortly before the incident.http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,9865,1432991,00.html …
Atomic Nerds (www.atomicnerds.com):
… really sucks to be the female, because there is a fairly high rate of injury or death for the females- add in the fact that mallard ducks in particular have an oddly high rate of homosexuality, and you have the animal kingdom’s first recorded case ofhomosexual necrophilia. Kinky people, the next time you start thinking you’re such creatively bent little primates, remember that you were outdone in perversity by a duck. (And, possibly, a squirrel, but no one was able to get a confirmed gender ID on the victim for that …
Atomic Nerds (www.atomicnerds.com):
… really sucks to be the female, because there is a fairly high rate of injury or death for the females- add in the fact that mallard ducks in particular have an oddly high rate of homosexuality, and you have the animal kingdom’s first recorded case ofhomosexual necrophilia. Kinky people, the next time you start thinking you’re such creatively bent little primates, remember that you were outdone in perversity by a duck. (And, possibly, a squirrel, but no one was able to get a confirmed gender ID on the victim for that …
ECTOPLASMOSIS! (www.ectomo.com):
… on duck-corpse action, homosexual or otherwise. There was, however, an American case involving squirrels, although it is not known whether the necrophilia observed was homosexual or not as the victim had been run over by a truck shortly beforehand.Necrophilia among ducks ruffles feathers[Guardian] : Chatquah and Galoshes Share This © ectoplasmosis, 2007. | Permalink | No comments yet | Add to del.icio.us | digg it | reddit it …
Chatquah and Galoshes (dignifieddevil.wordpress.com):
… homosexual necrophiliac ducks …
dwarbi's roof (blog.dwarbi.com):
… I begin this post with a horrociously bastardised title as a shout out to good ole señor Bush, whose gaffs with the Queen of England today made big-time headlines. I don't usually blog about current events, whether it's winking presidents orhomosexual necrophiliac ducks, since there are a million other blogs to cover that. I prefer to stick to entries of a more personal nature, and, believe or not, neither of these stories hit too close to home. Nonetheless, I will continue. If there is one thing I …