Gay Ducks!

• In the summer of 1995, Kees Moeliker, a dutch researcher, was sitting behind his desk in the glass building of the Rotterdam Natural museum.
• Suddenly he was alerted by an unusual loud bang coming from the direction of the window.
• Outside the building, a male mallard (the common wild duck) was found dead, laying on its belly in the sand. A case of homosexual necrophilia.

• Next to the dead duck, another male mallard was present that forcibly picked the dead duck’s head for a few minutes after which it mounted the corpse and began forcefully copulating with it.

• The male mallard raped the corpse ( Dead duck ) almost continuously for 75 minutes.
• This bizarre observation is unique because homosexual necrophilic behaviour has never been described before.
• Interestingly, homosexuality is not very rare in ducks, with up to one in 10 duck couples being homosexual.
• Also occasionally necrophilia can be seen, but only with males trying to mount dead females.