Q&A: Disverer of Dead Gay Duck Sex

HOW GAY DEAD DUCK SEX WAS DISVERED

Wh all the tert duck sex the days, a lecture by the scientist who disvered gay mallard necrophilia seems timely.

“DEAD DUCK DAY” MARKS THAT TIME A SCIENTIST WNSED GAY DUCK NECROPHILIA

In a TED Talk posted onle this month, Dutch blogist Ke Moeliker, a curator at the Natural History Mm Rotterdam, explas how he beme the first scientist to document homosexual necrophilia ducks. And, look, both are of the male sex — homosexual necrophilia, '" Moeliker told the dience. " It was the first documented se of homosexual necrophilia the speci.

(c) Where Moeliker observed the "homosexual necrophilia. In 1995, Ke Moeliker, a curator at Rotterdam’s Natuurhistorisch Mm, documented the first se of homosexual necrophilia mallards after he found one male mallard attemptg to mate wh another that had died after flyg to a mm wdow.

Before he won an Ig Nobel Prize 2003 for his study, "The First Case of Homosexual Necrophilia the Mallard Anas Platyrhynchos, " Dutch blogist Ke Moeliker had never heard of the awards.

That's basilly bee what I won the prize for was about homosexual necrophilia mallards.

A: I thk so, pecially for a large dience who thk homosexualy, and thgs like necrophilia, is strictly limed to the human speci. The strange se of the homosexual necrophiliac duck phed out the boundari of knowledge a rather improbable way when was rerd by Dutch rearcher Ke may have ffled a few feathers, but earned him the veted Ig Nobel prize for blogy award for improbable rearch, and next week he will be reuntg his fdgs to UK dienc on the Ig Nobel behave pretty badly, seems. It is not so much that up to one 10 of mallard upl are homosexual - no one would raise an eyebrow the liberal Netherlands - but they regularly dulge "attempted rape flights" when they pursue other ducks wh a view to forcible matg.