TIL. Ducks are very rapey, practice gang rape, one in three duck matings are rapes. Males are known as drakes.

Only 3% of birds have penises.

For most birds, the superior design is the joining of the individual male and female holes known as the cloaca. Sperm passes from the male to the female during “the cloacal kiss.”

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The need for cooperation of both parties to achieve this union has led to elaborate courtship rituals -- the call and response of bird attraction, moving the pair closer to the point of their mutual engagement.

Aw! <3

Ducks have enormous sex organs -- spiraling tentacles that can be as long as the drake itself. The Argentine lake duck’s phallus probably holds the record at 16 inches. If that isn’t bizarre enough, add the fact that in the fall, a drake’s genitalia will disappear, only to reappear next spring. Nobody knows why this happens.

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Females protect themselves from undesired insemination through their long and complex oviduct (the equivalent of the vagina in birds). Brennan found that the vaginal tubes were not straight but had “all these weird structures, these pockets and spirals.” This served to impede the sperm’s fertilization mission; unwanted sperm could be stored in side chambers to be ejected later.... ...so 97 percent of all duck offspring are the result of the choice of the mother.

go ladies d(=_= )