Talk:Homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck

fuddlemark (befuddle me!) 09:28, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Should this page be merged with the article Mallard?Bill Sayre 22:36, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

I think it'd make more sense to maybe merge it with Homosexual necrophilia in animals, if such a page existed. Still, the existence of homosexual necrophilia in mallard ducks is notable in and of itself. So no merger is really necessary. --Cyde Weys 22:45, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

I think this incident is notable enough on its own to justify its own article, as per above. - Baconpatroller 00:02, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

It was also a recipient of the IgNobel Prize. --Cyde Weys 02:41, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Maybe we're hoping for too much expecting to separate homosexual necrophilia from heterosexual (or even bisexual) necrophilia in animals. I feel - and this saddens me somewhat - that we're unlikely to ever build up enough case studies to justify two articles. garik 10:41, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm redirecting to Animal sexuality; that article already talks about this. If anyone disagrees strongly go ahead and undo. —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-07-07 17:58Z

Picture

Caption is pointless and unencyclopedic. Picture of duck is useless unless it can contribute to the article title. Skinnyweed 00:19, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Agreed, what we actually need is an image of the act itself, if it exists. _(snicker) deadkid_dk 06:14, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Um...Is this a serious entry or just a joke? This should not be on the wikipedia. Miskatonic 00:25, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

It's definately a serious entry. It's all true, and fairly well known (myself, I've read it in New Scientist.) User:Maestrosync / 202.191.106.74 14:15, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Read the references! One of them is a link to the scientific journal article where this behavior was first discovered. --Cyde↔Weys 14:22, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Delete this entry... The article describes an unique event and not normal behaviour of mallards. It doesn't prove its thesis with other examples or tries to explain this behaviour. It is not a serious scientific article or thesis. The "Ig Nobel Prize" for which the researcher is nominated is a parody. In my oppinion this necrophilia is a genetic defect which often occures with city mallards or a mental disease. --Professor at the University of Zurich, department ducks

It doesn't purport to be normal behaviour or anything else. Skinnyweed 13:31, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

It's not truly necrophilia, so "this necrophilia" certainly isn't a genetic 'defect' or mental 'disorder.' The live one was likely unaware (or unconcerned) of his partner's death. JayW 20:51, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

This article shouldn't be used to describe an animal behavior per se, but rather a well known, (or infamous,) scientific article.

Do we really need such a psefific articleDermo69

Convert to redirect

During the preceding deletion discussion, so abruptly terminated, there was support for converting it to a redirect. I don't think there needs to be an entire article on this paper. There is no general phenomenon. Better to mention it briefly in the context of animal sexuality, as it is already mentioned at Non-Human_Animal_Sexuality#Necrophilia. Deco 13:40, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

There being no objection, I proceed to merge. Dcoetzee 05:25, 3 April 2007 (UTC)