As the expression goes: If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck. Complicating the old adage, a male musk duck named Ripper could talk like a ...

Adult musk ducks raised in captivity can mimic the sounds they heard as hatchlings, such as a pony snorting, a door slamming, a man coughing and even what was probably a former caretaker’s catchphrase ...

While everyone’s familiar with parrots’ ability to mimic human voices and words—Polly does indeed want a cracker—it turns out some ducks have the same talent. One Australian musk duck, Ripper, was ...

Caretakers have captured Australian musk ducks mimicking human sounds and one of them can even say the phrase, “You bloody fool.” While everyone’s familiar with parrots’ ability to mimic human voices ...