Duck Duck Homosexual Necrophilia

According to Clara Moskowitz at Live Science, there is an award series called the Ig Nobels. An Ig Nobel award should not be confused with the no-longer meaningful Nobel prizes, who they hand out to pretty much anybody these days. (I used to hope that maybe some day I could be Time’s person of the year or win a Nobel prize and my parents would finally be impressed, but the lax standards for those accolades of late have thrown that hope out the window.)

Harvard plays host to the Ig Nobel award ceremonies. Dutch biologist Kees Moeliker recently won for scientifically observing homosexual necrophilia among ducks. Mallards specifically. Seriously. The following is the mission statement for the Ig Nobel Prizes:

“The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people’s interest in science, medicine, and technology.”

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Posted by Amelia G on October 12, 2010. Filed under Popcorn, Sex. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry