Hello all!,

Someone told me at the weekend that its only female ducks that quack. Is is true?  This is the sort of question that will keep me awake at night if I can't find out the answer so please help.
I'm such a saddo
Ali :)

Hi Ali

This is quite true.  Drakes make a noise but it sounds like a quack with a very sore throat.

Christine

I do not know if that true, but what i DO know is that a duck's quack doesn't echo! strange!

I have never had the time or the inclination to test this one out, so i will have to depend on other peolpe telling me this is true ( i wonder which sad guy found this bizzare fact out?!)

I think it was found out by a University doing a study on it. See university really does prepare you for life.

Nikki

Sky One programme called Brainiacs have disproved this - they wanted to take a duck up to the whispering gallery of St Pauls, but weren't allowed, so they took it to a very echoey pedestrian subway instead - and a ducks quack DOES echo!

The myth about ducks' quacks not echoing comes from the fact their natural habitat is large open spaces such as lakes and mud flats where there is nothing for the sound to bounce off.
Male ducks can quack but don't as often or as loudly as females. They often whistle though.

Any particular tune? :D

Kath

lol @ kath

Both ducks and drakes quack but drakes make a much softer noise and don't quack as often as ducks do.  When we used to hatch our own ducklings I was hopeless at sexing them the conventional way but I usually had a good idea of what we had by their different sounds. :)

Kath.

Of course it could have something to do with the fact that the male of all species has a lot less to say than the female. We have a job to get a word in edgeways!

Oh John :( is it the girls fault they have the Knowlege ;)

Or is it something about "Empty vessels making the most noise"? ;)

Who are you calling an empty vessel :D ......... empty vessel :D and wheres that echo coming from :(...........beats me :D

Well the echo isn't from the duck as they don't echo....or do they? :D :D 

Kath

And that's just the way we like it John.  ;) :D

Kath.