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 ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – A mallard duck mother can quack a sigh of relief after her four ducklings were rescued from a storm drain by the St. Augustine Fire Department and Public Works. It wasn’t an easy ...

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.

Ducks, to put it mildly, can be very annoying. For one thing, they're prone to bouts of aggression, attacking people at random. Their incessant quacking can get pretty irritating, too. But, beneath ...