• tal@lemmy.today
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    22 hours ago

    Ehh…

    https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-05-10-we-2559-story.html

    The Duck Wars : Mating season is a brutal time for the female birds, who often are injured or die. Residents along the canals have created a sanctuary.

    This is mating season, and, as the ducks’ human friends will tell you, it’s no Disney movie. These are ducks out of a Far Side cartoon, says one observer: They should have jackets that read “Hell’s Waterfowl.”

    The ducks of the Venice canals, most of them crossbred mallards officially known as urban domesticated ducks, engage in mating behavior that is hard on the females in the best of times. A female that wanders near a group of males will be mounted again and again. Females that escape alive drag themselves out of the water stripped of the feathers on their heads and backs. Some lose an eye.

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      18 hours ago

      You can’t just leave out the most important part!

      The ducks’ dicks, which are surprisingly long and twisting, will forcefully and rapidly grow inside the female. I can only imagine the pain and the struggle. This has led to an evolutionary arms race between the sexes, where females have evolved dead-ends in their vaginas in an effort to curb impregnation from rape.

      Isn’t nature wonderful?

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      19 hours ago

      Daaaaaaaamn. This should be a horror movie concept. A group of college students on campus hear stories of wild orgies down by the lake.

      The ones who investigate and participate enter a world of pain. An orgy so hardcore, body hair gets ripped off, and you’re lucky to make it out alive.

      Like Freddie Kruger, but horny!