QUESTION: Why do ducks quack? ANSWER: Braeleigh, I loved your question because even though I think about how animals act all the time, this was honestly something I had never thought about before! In ...

These are the various ways French, Chinese, Greek, Hindi, Arabian, Hungarian, Russian, and Thai might imitate the call of a mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), probably the most common duck in the world.

It’s true. A good many ducks quack, but not all ducks quack. It is also true that a good old-fashioned quack will attract most ducks—mallards and non-mallards alike. However, the ability to sound like ...

A great ruckus arose on my pond, one afternoon in early June, while I was leisurely scribbling, comfortable in my big easy chair: agitated high-decibel quacking of mallard. Of course, I leaped out of ...

Brits will have many fond memories of going down to their local park as children to feed the ducks. The simple but pleasant past-time continues to be a popular one, and may even have instilled in us a ...