Comments on: Duck Sex: Competition between sexes leads to crazy anatomy http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 18 May 2013 18:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: William Towns http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html#comment-1463221 William Towns Sat, 30 Jun 2012 02:20:00 +0000 #comment-1463221 Actually the evolutionary objective for a female is to procreate with the mate of HER choosing.  You don't want random babies just to have them, you want the fittest ones possible.  Thus the corkscrew vagina develops.  At least that's my interpretation. Actually the evolutionary objective for a female is to procreate with the mate of HER choosing.  You don’t want random babies just to have them, you want the fittest ones possible.  Thus the corkscrew vagina develops.  At least that’s my interpretation.

]]> By: Ofek Shilon http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html#comment-1329688 Ofek Shilon Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:37:00 +0000 #comment-1329688 Strange explanation. There is no evolutional advantage for a female in avoiding rape - on the contrary: if her offspring are 'rapist ducks' themselves, their chances of procreation vastly increase. Strange explanation. There is no evolutional advantage for a female in avoiding rape – on the contrary: if her offspring are ‘rapist ducks’ themselves, their chances of procreation vastly increase.

]]> By: Philbert http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html#comment-1304978 Philbert Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:13:00 +0000 #comment-1304978 If females are winning, why do drakes have these long schlongs? Apparently there is evolutionary benefit for having such a long apparatus. If females are winning, why do drakes have these long schlongs? Apparently there is evolutionary benefit for having such a long apparatus.

]]> By: aarontheman http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html#comment-1304954 aarontheman Tue, 27 Dec 2011 07:11:00 +0000 #comment-1304954 Drakes are pigs. Drakes are pigs.

]]> By: Aaron Swain http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html#comment-1304794 Aaron Swain Mon, 26 Dec 2011 21:21:00 +0000 #comment-1304794 So.Wrong. So.Wrong.

]]> By: pKp http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html#comment-673025 pKp Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-673025 @45 : oh, <i>thank you</i> for that. As if the video wasn't enough. Hope it's not sausage for lunch. Or pasta. Or...I don't think I'll have lunch, in fact. More seriously, this is an interesting question - that think must take a whole lot of space inside Daffy. @45 : oh, thank you for that. As if the video wasn’t enough.

Hope it’s not sausage for lunch. Or pasta. Or…I don’t think I’ll have lunch, in fact.

More seriously, this is an interesting question – that think must take a whole lot of space inside Daffy.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html#comment-673038 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-673038 lmfao @ #20 lmfao @ #20

]]> By: sworm http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html#comment-672531 sworm Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-672531 That brought back memories. That brought back memories.

]]> By: ZDepthCharge http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html#comment-672788 ZDepthCharge Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-672788 That is the second most Cthuloid thing I've ever seen. That is the second most Cthuloid thing I’ve ever seen.

]]> By: dbarak http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html#comment-672534 dbarak Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-672534 I'm getting REALLY tired of them putting "security" cameras in the restrooms here at work. I’m getting REALLY tired of them putting “security” cameras in the restrooms here at work.

]]> By: mjfgates http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html#comment-673046 mjfgates Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-673046 You know how Daffy is always bouncing around? As if he had some sort of, you know, <i>spring</i> inside him?... Yeah. You know how Daffy is always bouncing around? As if he had some sort of, you know, spring inside him?… Yeah.

]]> By: Phoenicks http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html#comment-672540 Phoenicks Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-672540 Duuuude. I have ducks. While I am glad their duck love in consensual, I am a little eeked out that there is a penis like that wandering around my property. Jesus Christ I had no idea that's what was happening every morning. O_o Duuuude. I have ducks. While I am glad their duck love in consensual, I am a little eeked out that there is a penis like that wandering around my property. Jesus Christ I had no idea that’s what was happening every morning. O_o

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html#comment-672545 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-672545 Unicorn! Stat! (And I don't mean the sexual escapades of our fantastically evolved friends.) Unicorn! Stat! (And I don’t mean the sexual escapades of our fantastically evolved friends.)

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html#comment-672809 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-672809 Pshaw! My boyfriend can do that. Pshaw! My boyfriend can do that.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html#comment-672556 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-672556 Yeah, that skeet skeet at the end deMANDS a unicorn chaser! Yeah, that skeet skeet at the end deMANDS a unicorn chaser!

]]> By: semiotix http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html#comment-672559 semiotix Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-672559 Yeah, well... well... I've got a great personality! (Emasculated by a duck and it's not even noon. Gonna be one of those days.) Yeah, well… well… I’ve got a great personality!

(Emasculated by a duck and it’s not even noon. Gonna be one of those days.)

]]> By: Neverfox http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html#comment-673327 Neverfox Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-673327 Thx, #42. People say the dumbest things when talking about evolution. It had nothing to do with trying and everything to do with already having an adaptation that helps you succeed. To call it trying is to imagine the duck willing its penis or vagina into a new shape. One thing evolution hasn't brought about is less stupid talk about evolution. Thx, #42. People say the dumbest things when talking about evolution. It had nothing to do with trying and everything to do with already having an adaptation that helps you succeed. To call it trying is to imagine the duck willing its penis or vagina into a new shape. One thing evolution hasn’t brought about is less stupid talk about evolution.

]]> By: phisrow http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html#comment-672818 phisrow Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-672818 I recommend <i>not</i> reading up on the phrase "traumatic insemination". There are species out there that make this freaky duck stuff sound like a light romance. I recommend not reading up on the phrase “traumatic insemination”. There are species out there that make this freaky duck stuff sound like a light romance.

]]> By: hep cat http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html#comment-672568 hep cat Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-672568 Chased by Unicorns? Chased by Unicorns?

]]> By: magicbean http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html#comment-672572 magicbean Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-672572 one word: pornithology one word: pornithology

]]> By: Patrick Austin http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html#comment-672574 Patrick Austin Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-672574 Jesus Christ, this means that somewhere out there on the internet is a video of a guy with a duck on his face doing something not just horrifying, but like something out of the most screwed up tentacle porn you've ever seen. I want to travel back in time and warn myself not to read boing boing today. Jesus Christ, this means that somewhere out there on the internet is a video of a guy with a duck on his face doing something not just horrifying, but like something out of the most screwed up tentacle porn you’ve ever seen.

I want to travel back in time and warn myself not to read boing boing today.

]]> By: Angstrom http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html#comment-672579 Angstrom Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-672579 So, ducks really do get 'screwed' then? So, ducks really do get ‘screwed’ then?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html#comment-672835 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-672835 The excellent British comedian Stewart Lee does a bit on this subject, creating a corollary between the nature of duck sex and the anthropomorphic moralizing within "March of the Penguins": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MroAtQKHu8 The excellent British comedian Stewart Lee does a bit on this subject, creating a corollary between the nature of duck sex and the anthropomorphic moralizing within “March of the Penguins”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MroAtQKHu8

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html#comment-672581 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-672581 my captcha says It's Biggest my captcha says It’s Biggest

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html#comment-715077 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-715077 Ok------- but the BEST thing is all the comments. You guys are way too good. I love it. Ok——- but the BEST thing is all the comments.
You guys are way too good. I love it.

]]> By: Blaine http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html#comment-672584 Blaine Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-672584 Rabbit Season! Duck Season, FIRE!! Rabbit Season!
Duck Season, FIRE!!

]]> By: MrScience http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html#comment-673097 MrScience Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-673097 No... but wouldn't the theory of evolution favor those females that could choose their mates? And wouldn't evolution then also favor those males that could thwart that choice? See the text on this blog entry on <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts/2007/04/what_makes_natural_selection_a.php">Selective Mating</a>. No… but wouldn’t the theory of evolution favor those females that could choose their mates? And wouldn’t evolution then also favor those males that could thwart that choice? See the text on this blog entry on Selective Mating.

]]> By: zyodei http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html#comment-672592 zyodei Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-672592 I dunno...I just stuck my hand up a duck's ass and pulled it's guts out just three days ago, and *I* didn't see anything like that. I guess I wasn't looking hard enough. Wish I'd seen this post first..or glad I didn't! Sure made me glad I'm a vegetarian, though :P I dunno…I just stuck my hand up a duck’s ass and pulled it’s guts out just three days ago, and *I* didn’t see anything like that. I guess I wasn’t looking hard enough. Wish I’d seen this post first..or glad I didn’t!

Sure made me glad I’m a vegetarian, though :P

]]> By: dancentury http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html#comment-672593 dancentury Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-672593 That's just plain daffy! That’s just plain daffy!

]]> By: jja http://boingboing.net/2009/12/23/duck-sex-competition.html#comment-673106 jja Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-673106 Bugs strained at the cords until the bedposts creaked, then sank exhausted. Face down, spreadeagled, tail in the air, he could not break free. If only he hadn't taken that left turn... Behind him there was a quiet chuckle. Bugs craned his neck wildly, trying to see over his shoulder, only glimpsing a dark shape silhouetted by the light in the doorway. His dauntless nerve failed him. "Eh... What's up...?" As he spoke, something uncoiled wildly from the figure's crotch and curled about in the air like silly string before stiffening into a dripping, glistening tentacle, bumpy and screwy, squamous and rugose, knotted in places, pulsing in the light like the urge of an elder god made manifest. Bugs screamed, struggled uselessly as the figure approached... A gloating, lisping voice spoke close into Bug's ear, spraying him with droplets of saliva, a hint of the horror that was about to unfold within him... "It's rabbit season," the voice said. Bugs strained at the cords until the bedposts creaked, then sank exhausted. Face down, spreadeagled, tail in the air, he could not break free.

If only he hadn’t taken that left turn…

Behind him there was a quiet chuckle. Bugs craned his neck wildly, trying to see over his shoulder, only glimpsing a dark shape silhouetted by the light in the doorway.

His dauntless nerve failed him. “Eh… What’s up…?”

As he spoke, something uncoiled wildly from the figure’s crotch and curled about in the air like silly string before stiffening into a dripping, glistening tentacle, bumpy and screwy, squamous and rugose, knotted in places, pulsing in the light like the urge of an elder god made manifest. Bugs screamed, struggled uselessly as the figure approached…

A gloating, lisping voice spoke close into Bug’s ear, spraying him with droplets of saliva, a hint of the horror that was about to unfold within him…

“It’s rabbit season,” the voice said.

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