Video insulting Australian ducks has gone viral

Animals never cease to amaze us with their attitudes. On this occasion, the protagonists are musk ducks from Australia that they have learned to imitate certain words very clearly.

These ducks from Tidbindilla Nature Reserve, CanberraThey repeat what those who care for and feed them say. What surprised Internet users the most is that in the clip, which has gone viral, we can clearly hear how the birds are saying bad words.

According to a study published recently on the portal of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Professor Carl ten Cate of the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, recovered a recording of a duck named Ripper who in the 1980s learned to pronounce various words by imitating the men at Tidbindilla Nature Reserve in Canberra, Australia.

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In the video, the ducks are heard cursing like “Crazy Sob” and are believed to have learned this from their keepers. In addition, the teacher reveals that he has also learned to pronounce words like “food” (“Food”) and even imitates some sounds like a door slamming.

The study specifies that these animals reproduce sounds since the act is directly associated with their reproductive vocalizations. Thus, it is determined that birds are able to store a large vocal register in their brains through constant repetition, something similar to learning behavior in children.

A survey of Carel ten Cate and Peter Fullagar, emphasizes that the case of the Ripper is not the first to exist in its archives. And it is that they managed to detect this behavior in two other previous cases, although they could not recover the previous investigations. Apparently, bushfires in Australia have wiped out the evidence for these talking ducks. Even so, they ensured that this behavior is only developed by birds in captivity, due to their constant interaction with humans.

Both the case of Ripper like that of the other two musk ducks in Australia, they represent cases of independent evolutionary development. Birds put aside their “wilderness” and develop these complex neural and behavioral mechanisms.

However, the fact surprised Internet users since this type of situation is not very common. For this reason, many reproduced the clip in amazement and made jokes about it.