Mallard chatter

On each side of the channel at Botany Pond, was a pair of mallards, talking to each other in duck talk. There's some head bobbing, too. I'm not sure what they were saying, but the "chat" was followed by one pair attacking the other (nobody was hurt).
The University of Chicago, June 8, 2020.

[@nicolereggia2387]

This is a territorial dispute display (chatter, lateral head-bobs, the opening of beaks and body posturing) between the pairs of ducks; if no one yields by leaving or backing off, they will be driven away by the more dominate and aggressive ducks.

[@Jakau-q8i]

Oh wow, that's terrible. We gotta adress this dispute to Duck UN until it turned into a full scale duck war

[@fabriglas]

Neighbours denigrating one another

[@aspieotaku3580]

Soo cute, the male mallards always pretty with the green head.

[@Australiawildlife-oz7]

So cute 😊

[@Amazing_duck_videos]

Vert cute video. I wonder who won😊

[@mihaip1179]

What are they saying?

[@TedLJones]

The joke answer: politics
The actual answer: "get the fuck outta here before we tear you each a new one"

[@dystopian_1]

"Your wife is ugly"
--- "No, your wife is uglier"

[@wtfhrsh4178]

​@@dystopian_1😂😂

[@ThornyA_D39]

They are talking about current the current social and political states of the world

[@shairaptor1865]

@@ThornyA_D39 Glad that they DON'T do that. They are perfectly developed and don't need such chitter chatter like some humans do.