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1. When you take kids under five down the river or pond, they will usually quack at ducks.

2. Apparently ducks can communicate very well using quacks. They have complex family relationships. They are monogamous and some studies suggest they even have regional accents. They’re smart, ducks, it’s just we can’t understand them.

3. I wonder if kids quacking at ducks is like going to France and going “oh heh hoh heh hoh” at our continental cousins.

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