Your contributions will let us travel to a farm in Quebec, Canada that has trained male ducks to provide sperm for artificial insemination. We will let these ducks copulate with a series of transparent model oviducts fitted with force transducers – the process is harmless to the ducks, and isn’t much different from the way the farmers collect sperm. As each duck everts his penis, we will simultaneously film it with high-speed video and measure how hard it hits the wall of the model oviduct.
h/t John H
Lucky duck?
Canada that has trained male ducks to provide sperm for artificial insemination.
Wow...so many layers of government we didn't even know about. Our tax dollars at work.
Poking duck? Still chuckling.
Donald Duck volunteers for trajectory tests...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBqLVLz7vv8
Oh boy! Can I get the video?
I happen to love ducks. Mainly because they are really rhe only animal that produces an offspring that exactly resembles their parents.
Think about it..if you encountered a human with the same physical appearance as a baby, you'd probably run away in terror.
So every spring the female ducks come out in the marina where I moor my boat, accompanied by about 12-14 duckings, and serve to delight me. They all swim as one.
Thereafter, because we have two bald eagles' nests a few hundred feet away, the number of the duckings decreases. That, as unpleasant as it sometimes is, is nature.
But the notion that we are actually paying people to conduct "scientific" surveys on ducks, when it certainly appears that they are doing quite well on their own, is.....nuts.
errr...duckings = ducklings
My first thought was that this post was some sort of belated April Fool's joke, and that Kate is just ducking with us.
There is absolutely no place to cut the budget, The world as we know it will cease to exist if one more cent is cut. I just don't get the importance of it.
What a bunch of quacks.
Brennan and Kelly's next experimentation: hybrids!
Canada, a vast expanse of northern wasteland famous for its peacekeepers and its duck ... pokers.
"copulate with a series of transparent model oviducts fitted with force transducers"
Admit it, guys, we've all been there.
And WHO does the clean up?
I understand Ontario has a problem with ORNGE sauce tax dollar usage too.
and here I thought Long Duck Dong was a movie character!!!!!
Well I think you should all lighten up after all technology flowing from this research will ,one day, allow us to walk on mars,
It's a dirty thankless job but some body's gotta do it - I'm glad it's them what likes to wank the ducks.
One hopeful sign: it appears they are seeking funding from the public to conduct this study. So either they tried for a government grant, and failed, or are sufficiently ethical to realize that such a study is not a worthy use of grant money.
What has the world come to? Duck porn?
I tried the Inflating Drake's Penis last year in a Chinese restaurant, but it wasn't as good as the Chain Smoke Duck or the Three-Time-Smash-Flat Lucky Chicken.
They ain't called Quacks for nothin.
This job may not require courage, but it certainly needs pluck...
Calling Mike Rowe, dirty job opening in Quebec...
Just to be clear here, if they are calling on non-taxpayer funding then I'm all for them buying inflatable ducks for Quebec drakes. (Had to stay away from words like deposit or contributions when writing the last sentence.)
I thought a lot about trying to say something about having a corkscrew appendage but my wife said it best: OUCH!
Duck porn would boost production immeasurably....
Learnin' is stupid.
Learnin' is stupid.