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2006-07-21 12:35:00 · 15 answers · asked by pappananayeye 1 in Pets ➔ Birds
A duck's quack doesn't echo" is a much quoted scientific myth. In spring 2003 it was quoted on Home Truths on BBC Radio 4 and Shooting Stars on BBC 2. You can listen to our sound files on Home Truths by going to the BBC4 web site and "listening again". Recently, Salford Acoustics was the source of the story being presented in the national and international media when we proved that a duck's quack does echo as part of the British Association Festival of Science.
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2006-07-21 12:41:16 · answer #1 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I'm amazed that anyone still believes this newspaper-spread myth. I think it's a joke played on first day cub reporters. Editors tell them to go research a duck's quack and write 1000 words on it's echo (or lack of). A bit like the " go get me a left-handed screwdriver" order in engineering. William Hartston (of chess fame) debunked it recently in an answer to a newspaper question.
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2006-07-21 14:07:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO, that is not true, duck's quack are made up of sound waves. All sound waves react the same.
The quack echos. If only this myth would stop.
2006-07-21 13:59:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It echos, I could hear my pet ducks quack bounce all over the place when I was a kid.
2006-07-21 12:47:21 · answer #4 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AH, this is just a myth. ALL sounds echo - it is just the reflection of sound energy.
'Mythbusters' CONCLUSIVELY PROVED that ducks quacks DO echo.
2006-07-21 13:16:32 · answer #5 · answered by creviazuk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most of the time they are not in places that make echos, up in the air, on tree lined ponds, but I have hunted them in places where the quacking definitely echoed
2006-07-21 12:43:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no echo because the duck is not a cave dweller
2006-07-21 12:38:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont know about that but i do know when removing a ducks innards to prepare it for cooking and yes folks its most definitly dead if its still got its neck and beack it still quacks its quite spooky the first time that happens to ya
2006-07-21 13:24:40 · answer #8 · answered by omnigomni 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check out the Mythbusters' site. They did the experiment.
2006-07-21 12:38:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I bet that they can echo...i have a few and i heard them echo before ....i think
2006-07-21 13:20:28 · answer #10 · answered by Don't Mess 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋