Talking ducks?

[Terry Thomas]

I am very sceptical about whether a duck can imitate human voices. There have been other instances when various animals have made sounds that sound very like human speech, as well as claims that this is 'talking'. I have kept many species of waterfowl and cannot say that I found any of them were very intelligent! Although hearing the recently released recordings of what sounds like a Musk duck talking I still have my doubts! What do you think??

 

[TinoPup]

They're not really "talking", they're mimicking sounds. Quite a few species do this. Our speech is just sounds to them, like any other noise.

 

[Fallax]

They are actually controlling all the world governments

 

[Junklekitteb]

Here are the recordings which you can listen to yourself:

Here is the paper, it is open access: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2020.0243

 

[Tetzoo Quizzer]

They are actually controlling all the world governments

Or just describing each member of the government in question!