The first case of Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard

August 25, 2015 3:30 PM

The IgNobel paper that inspired an Opera

The talk by the Author.

A recording of the said opera.

A review of the Opera.

posted by indianbadger1 (6 comments total)

Perhaps the first opera inspired by a journal article about homosexual necrophiliac ducks, but certainly not the first opera inspired by homosexual necrophiliac ducks themselves, as we know from Mozart's la Camera da letto del'Anitra.


(actually an extended allegory for freemasonry)
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 4:04 PM on August 25, 2015 [8 favorites]

Rather startled, I watched this scene from close quarters behind the window (Fig. 1) until 19.10 h during which time (75 minutes!) I made some photographs and the mallard almost continuously copulated his dead congener.
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I secured the dead duck and left the museum at 19.25 h. The mallard was still present at the site, calling 'raeb-raeb' and apparently looking for his victim (who, by then, was in the freezer).


Reminds me of the old canard "A dead duck in the freezer saves a lot of flapping around."

No, wait, that's not it...
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 4:15 PM on August 25, 2015 [1 favorite]

Metafilter: actually an extended allegory for freemasonry
posted by T.D. Strange at 4:17 PM on August 25, 2015

The first case of Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard

For some reason my brain tried to parse this as a reference to Mallard Fillmore, and I thought "Whoa, that's a seriously unexpected change of direction for that strip!"
posted by Greg_Ace at 4:22 PM on August 25, 2015 [7 favorites]

Reminds me of the old canard

I see what you did there...
posted by holybagel at 4:52 PM on August 25, 2015 [2 favorites]

Good lord, the rapist duck took FOREVER to get down to business, and when he finally did, they put up a privacy screen!!! What part of "I came here to see duck rape" did the folks who made this show miss?
posted by jenfullmoon at 7:26 AM on August 26, 2015