[TN-Bird] Duck Talk
- From: "David & Gloria Patterson" <dgpatterson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 17:41:30 -0000
Finally, it's official: Denizens of big cities really are louder
than denizens of the country. It's not just a false impression
after all, and it's true for more kinds of critters than just
humans. Here's proof (sort of): A researcher at Middlesex
University in England just released the results of a study on
the quacking of ducks, which sought to discover if and how
regional differences develop in duck-speak. Notable among the
study's findings is that city ducks are "noisier and laugh
raucously" compared with their rural cousins, which are "softer
and chilled out." The researchers speculate that city ducks have
to quack louder to be heard over the background noise of police
sirens, airplanes, big trucks, and buses. So, if it walks like a
duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck. But if it
walks like a duck and quacks like the air horn on a big semi,
it's a bull duck from Wall Street. Hey, they do what they gotta
do to survive: In New York, "soft, chilled out ducks" get
pressed into pate and served on qwackers.
Peter Nulty
Editor
mailto:StrongSignals@xxxxxxxxxx
David Patterson
Chattanooga
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