1988RedT2
1988RedT2 MegaDork
9/7/21 2:36 p.m.

This may catch some people by surprise, but I've been expecting it for quite some time now.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/07/you-bloody-fool-australian-talking-duck-proves-birds-can-imitate-speech

 

Australian musk ducks can imitate sounds including human speech, with one bird recorded repeatedly saying “you bloody fool”, according to a new study.

Beer Baron
Beer Baron MegaDork
9/7/21 3:29 p.m.

WHAT'S MEME ?: Meanwhile in Australia

Dusterbd13-michael
Dusterbd13-michael MegaDork
9/7/21 3:32 p.m.

Im sooo ready for a real life Howard the duck. 

I feel like if talking ducks were going to be a thing that it would've started at JG's house courtesy of a parrot intermediary between humans and ducks. 

RX Reven'
RX Reven' GRM+ Memberand UltraDork
9/7/21 5:34 p.m.

I once thought about running out and picking up a Ph.D. in genetic engineering just so I could try to splice duck genes so instead of saying quack, they'd say berk.

Berrrk...berk, berk, berk, berk.

Everybody thought I was crazy at the time but here we are. 

ShawnG
ShawnG UltimaDork
9/7/21 8:23 p.m.

triumph7
triumph7 HalfDork
9/7/21 9:19 p.m.

Aflac!

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