Did you know...

[classic33]

That the brighter a mallard’s bill, the more antibacterial power it, the male, has. Perhaps that’s a reason why a vibrantly colored bill attracts all the females.

 

[KEEF]

No I didnt know. I'm off to paint my nose bright orange.

 

[SteCenturion]

No I didnt know. I'm off to paint my nose bright orange.

To match your eyes ?

 

[postman]

No I didnt know. I'm off to paint my nose bright orange.

Careful you might turn into an Umpa Lumpa.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

No I didnt know. I'm off to paint my nose bright orange.

Why Orange, is not a Mallards bill Yellow? You may attract the incorrect type of attention painting it Orange

 

[swee'pea99]

That the brighter a mallard’s bill, the more antibacterial power it, the male, has. Perhaps that’s a reason why a vibrantly colored bill attracts all the females.

I wonder who found that out, and how, and - perhaps most importantly - why.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Some professor on an European Research grant

 

[classic33]

I wonder who found that out, and how, and - perhaps most importantly - why.

Some professor on an European Research grant

Someones been checking!



Melissah Rowe at the University Oslo
duck semen can kill bacteria.

 

[Colin_P]

It seems us humans have it in reverse as many selfie taking females try and emulate a ducks face. A lot fail in this and end up looking like a baboons arse or whatever those monkey's are called that have a red bum. I first saw a red bummed monkey at Windsor safari park (now legoland) in about 1978, oh how we laughed, especially when they tried to pull the windscreen wipers off my friends dads car.

 

[Sharky]

no, but I know about a Pelican, whose beak can hold more than his belly can.

 

[PeteXXX]

That the brighter a mallard’s bill, the more antibacterial power it, the male, has. Perhaps that’s a reason why a vibrantly colored bill attracts all the females.

Don't tell them out in the Far East, they'll be grinding Mallards down for medicinal purposes!

 

[PeteXXX]

And.. Did you know that if it wasn't for the hairs on a gooseberry, it'd be a grape..

 

[classic33]

Don't tell them out in the Far East, they'll be grinding Mallards down for medicinal purposes!

That's the visible result, not the cause.

 

[KEEF]

Orange and Yellow they are the same colour.Same as the colours you lot call Green and Brown and those other 2 Blue. and Purple. If I told I only see 1 wishy washy dish water colour in a Rainbow you now realise why I have painted my Nose Orange or is it Lime Green

 

[Andy_R]

Careful you might turn into an Umpa Lumpa.

Or that other orange lunatic....