How Do Ducks Stay Dry?

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  • Опубликовано: 3 дек 2024

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  • @SciShow
    @SciShow  3 года назад +22

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    • @squanchmastersquanch4376
      @squanchmastersquanch4376 3 года назад +1

      This is must be a sign. I live around a duck park. I just saw ducks mate forcefully. This made me think about the cloaca. The opening where they excrete and have sex. I understand that ducks (and some mammals) have them. My question, "If they have one cloaca for excrement and sex, how does that work? Wouldnt the duck (male) get some infection around its penis? It pees and poops in the same place. Is it cause the cloaca inside have several openings to release, pee, poop, and the penis? And yes I realize that ducks are one of few birds to have penises. Others just release sperm." Can I please have this answered, and same goes for the mammals? Do they have special openings for their cloaca?

    • @culi7068
      @culi7068 2 года назад

      In the video, you said the study looked at three different species of duck when in fact they actually only used three different breeds of not just the same species of duck, but the same subspecies (Anas platyrhynchos domesticus)

  • @1.4142
    @1.4142 3 года назад +29

    Another thing about the structure of feathers: Fused to the central shaft (rachis) are a series of branches, or barbs; the barbs themselves are also branched and form the barbules. These barbules have minute hooks called barbicels for cross-attachment.

  • @fennecfoxfanatic
    @fennecfoxfanatic 3 года назад +98

    Now this is what I call Quack Science!

  • @RustyTube
    @RustyTube 3 года назад +143

    How is this surprising? _Everything_ ducks do, they do with style. And with a smile.

    • @miskatonicalumni5612
      @miskatonicalumni5612 3 года назад +3

      There are some dapper ganders out there.

    • @ChrispyNut
      @ChrispyNut 3 года назад +2

      I gather ducklings are excluded, cos I've seen some trying to escape swimming pools and they had as much style as ... well ... me (super clumsy doofus).

    • @RustyTube
      @RustyTube 3 года назад

      @@ChrispyNut They’ll grow into it. :)

    • @ChrispyNut
      @ChrispyNut 3 года назад

      @@RustyTube Parent duck was pretty patient in the most recent one.... until the last, most clumsy one. The pool owner cared more than the parent.

    • @debas3d
      @debas3d 3 года назад +6

      Especially their penises

  • @therongjr
    @therongjr 3 года назад +25

    I first thought Hank was saying that researchers stacked DUCKS on top of each other inside a pressure chamber! I was horrified!

    • @BrianIsWatching
      @BrianIsWatching 3 года назад +12

      You've heard of barrel of monkeys. Now get ready for the sequel, pressure chamber full of ducks.

    • @fannyalbi9040
      @fannyalbi9040 3 года назад +2

      because u missed out the important word “feathers”, which the style come in

    • @Keallei
      @Keallei 3 года назад

      You are not alone. I heard this, too.

  • @thinktoomuchb4028
    @thinktoomuchb4028 3 года назад +51

    Fortunately, I keep my feathers numbered for... for just such an emergency.

    • @rivercrow8988
      @rivercrow8988 3 года назад

      😂😂😂

    • @mamanoneyall51
      @mamanoneyall51 3 года назад

      😆🤣👍

    • @vangu2918
      @vangu2918 3 года назад +2

      Beat me to it.👍

    • @Bigbuddyandblue
      @Bigbuddyandblue 3 года назад +5

      Now that, I say, that is a funny comment. Are you listening to me son? That’s a joke, son, I say, a joke,

  • @shanerooney7288
    @shanerooney7288 3 года назад +87

    *SciShow:* How do ducks stay dry.
    *Me:* Magic.
    *SciShow:* How do ducks make babies?
    *Me:* We don't talk about that.

  • @mehere8038
    @mehere8038 3 года назад +86

    Without watching I'm guessing the answer is that they cover themselves in Duck Tape right?

    • @kensmith5694
      @kensmith5694 3 года назад +11

      I watched it and it reminded me of something told to me by a wise old sea captain. "Give a man a duck and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to duck and he won't get knocked overboard by the sail when the wind changes.

    • @smssalina
      @smssalina 3 года назад +6

      Your quacking me up.

    • @mehere8038
      @mehere8038 3 года назад

      @@kensmith5694 boom

    • @mehere8038
      @mehere8038 3 года назад +1

      & I think my "boom" comment went over everyone's head (pun intended). It's the boom, not the sail that knocks people overboard if they don't duck, but also boom, on a great joke from Ken Smith, I loved it :)

    • @smssalina
      @smssalina 3 года назад

      @@mehere8038 ill put that down in my log book.

  • @thefeatheredfrontiersman8135
    @thefeatheredfrontiersman8135 3 года назад +3

    I remember in first grade 21 years ago. My teacher pulled out a goose feather and explained what hydrophobic meant. She said it was the oils that made it roll off.
    I've always wandered... Now I know!

  • @tylerolsen4417
    @tylerolsen4417 3 года назад +3

    Whats amazing is how thick the plumage is under the festher used to keep them warm

  • @fsmoura
    @fsmoura 3 года назад +60

    Well, as the saying goes, "dry as a duck." Or maybe it was "healthy as a horse." Something like that.

    • @truetech4158
      @truetech4158 3 года назад +1

      Trumpstein duck and ran into politics and moreless told people that pandemics and violence produces happy happy afterlives in the sky.

    • @ChrispyNut
      @ChrispyNut 3 года назад +1

      Crispy as a duck, innit? :\

    • @shanerooney7288
      @shanerooney7288 3 года назад +2

      As hung as a duck.
      ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

    • @truetech4158
      @truetech4158 3 года назад +1

      @@ArawnOfAnnwn Teflon Don, is when you pay millions in hush money to your ex wife who took you to court and read a sexual assault victim impact statement, so that you can purchase a get out of jail card in NY state, and after that you run for office, and then a deadly pandemic happens as your voters display skitzo affective afterlife expectations disorder yelling freedom like poorly educated sociopaths.

  • @duckss83
    @duckss83 3 года назад +1

    I love ducks, physics and this video a lot

  • @bazza945
    @bazza945 3 года назад +1

    They have a well fitting bung.

  • @klove828
    @klove828 3 года назад +4

    Jinx Monsoon taught me the phrase, “Water off a ducks back.”

    • @Her_Viscera
      @Her_Viscera 3 года назад

      "Oh I'm just repeating the phrase water off a ducks back to myself"

  • @VulpesNoctis
    @VulpesNoctis 3 года назад +1

    That is wickedly cool - which is precisely why ducks are used to determine whether someone is a witch or not

  • @AvenEngineer
    @AvenEngineer 3 года назад +11

    Can you do 'tighter than a ducks arse' next? Apparently. it's the only thing that keeps'em from sinking, or so I've been told, at the pub, by a drunk Welshmen. He seemed a credible authority on the subject at the time. After this video, I'm starting to think he may have been having a laugh.

  • @FlesHBoX
    @FlesHBoX 3 года назад +22

    if someone doesn't create a product for boats called "antifowl" it's a supreme lost opportunity.

    • @kensmith5694
      @kensmith5694 3 года назад

      Or claim it was invented by their aunt. "Aunty Fowl" sounds right.

    • @Joker45678
      @Joker45678 3 года назад

      They do have bottom paint called that.

  • @AwkwardKidAdventures
    @AwkwardKidAdventures 3 года назад +1

    This is one of the things we had to do with ducks and geese at the Virginia Wildlife Center. We had a big tub that we'd fill with water, stick the duck/ducklings in, cover it with something opaque and let them swim around. It was very cute!

  • @enquiryplay
    @enquiryplay 3 года назад +2

    They always bring a towel.

  • @diegomarteen
    @diegomarteen 3 года назад

    once you've seen the dog in the duck's beak, you can not unsee it EVER

  • @Prelude610
    @Prelude610 3 года назад +2

    The other thing I find weird about ducks is how bouyant they are.

  • @netaimonadal7927
    @netaimonadal7927 3 года назад +6

    *Ahh yes*
    Just what i needed to become a duck

  • @ricardoalexisnolazcocontre9110
    @ricardoalexisnolazcocontre9110 3 года назад +1

    00:09 Jinkx Monsoon's signature phrase 🤠

  • @TheAnimalzz
    @TheAnimalzz Год назад

    Just another reason to love ducks.

  • @janiehill4256
    @janiehill4256 3 года назад +1

    I want to know why ducks legs and feet don’t freeze when they are paddling around in a nearly frozen pond.

    • @Wooble57
      @Wooble57 3 года назад

      they let just enough blood flow through to keep them from literally freezing, but not much more. From what i recall their legs do get pretty chilly though.

    • @BigRalphSmith
      @BigRalphSmith 3 года назад

      Cold weather water foul have evolved a circulatory system in their legs and feet that act like liquid-to-liquid heat exchangers. The arteries and veins in their legs and feet are closely intertwined so the venous blood stays warmer by absorbing some of the heat from the warm blood coming from the heart. This system is hardcore in penguins.

  • @NoxSicarius1
    @NoxSicarius1 3 года назад +4

    Drop us an episode about interesting ways to make an electric charge, like pizoelectric crystals or maybe how a pizoelectric crystal works

    • @bazza945
      @bazza945 3 года назад

      They'll duck that one.

  • @Tuxedoz
    @Tuxedoz 3 года назад

    Ducks, refrigerators, water towers, oh my!

  • @chanoname4940
    @chanoname4940 3 года назад

    alright time to get my multiple layered duck feather jacket

  • @jaredpatterson1701
    @jaredpatterson1701 3 года назад

    A marvel of design

  • @therongjr
    @therongjr 3 года назад +1

    "They get wet with style" 🤭
    This video should be on Sci-Show: After Dark.

  • @UltimatePerfection
    @UltimatePerfection 3 года назад +10

    They are just good at ducking from water.

  • @themtouchinmykokoro2869
    @themtouchinmykokoro2869 3 года назад

    “Get wet with style” gonna remember that one

  • @wolfthorn1
    @wolfthorn1 3 года назад

    Duck duck goose.
    Smell my caboose.

  • @Felipeh999
    @Felipeh999 3 года назад +1

    What also floats in water?

  • @interrobangings
    @interrobangings 3 года назад +1

    duck towels, obviously

  • @RandyJames22
    @RandyJames22 3 года назад

    2:22 Duckedness. Ah -- Words!

  • @angelapotter8084
    @angelapotter8084 3 года назад

    Y'all should bring sci show quiz show back.

  • @rebelusa6585
    @rebelusa6585 3 года назад

    How ducks stay dry, darkwing duck will enter the chat.

  • @levi12howell
    @levi12howell 3 года назад

    We took rough wooden boats and improved them making them as smooth and aerodynamic. Now we’ve realized that these smooth aerodynamic things can be made better and more aerodynamic by adding a certain kind of roughness to them. It’s just mind-blowing to me

    • @BigRalphSmith
      @BigRalphSmith 3 года назад

      Perhaps you mean "hydrodynamic"?

    • @levi12howell
      @levi12howell 3 года назад

      lol I knew aerodynamic wasn’t the right word, but that it would work to convey my thought. So decided someone will be along to tell me the right word for it. Hydrodynamic would have been my guess, like hydroelectric, but thought it’d look worse if it wasn’t

  • @LordBlackNephew
    @LordBlackNephew 3 года назад +1

    What da Duck?
    BX STAND UP!!!

  • @robertcampomizzi7988
    @robertcampomizzi7988 3 года назад

    That's one dapper duck!

    • @kensmith5694
      @kensmith5694 3 года назад

      Ducks tend to be good looking birds. Their feathers have a shine to them.

  • @injunsun
    @injunsun 3 года назад

    HANK, I love your shirt.

  • @totalfreedom45
    @totalfreedom45 3 года назад

    At what time does a duck wake up?
    At the quack of dawn.
    🦆 🦆 🦆

  • @jonatanromanowski9519
    @jonatanromanowski9519 3 года назад +1

    Go Go Sci Show

  • @pamelamays4186
    @pamelamays4186 3 года назад

    Get wet with style.
    Cool explanation Hank!

  • @TiagoNomad
    @TiagoNomad 3 года назад

    That was ducking awesome.

  • @N.G.B_SK8143
    @N.G.B_SK8143 3 года назад

    I peep that HVAC plug🤣🤣

  • @ryanackley5242
    @ryanackley5242 Год назад

    Stockton Rush: I am going to make a sub out of duck feathers!!

  • @Foolish188
    @Foolish188 3 года назад

    Now explain how the US Navy took a blurry video of an object flying at the height ducks fly, the size of a duck, flying at the speed ducks fly, with the heat signature of a duck, must be an Alien UFO.

  • @gigglysamentz2021
    @gigglysamentz2021 3 года назад

    What a huge paper omg!

  • @ncrdisabled
    @ncrdisabled 3 года назад

    i have 4 ducks they make great pets

  • @Shaden0040
    @Shaden0040 3 года назад

    I bet this goes for penguines who have the most number of feather per square inch on their bodies.

  • @Dirk_Berserk
    @Dirk_Berserk 3 года назад +1

    duck duck goose

  • @LKDesign
    @LKDesign 3 года назад

    Great, now I want Lasagne.

  • @hrsdarwish306
    @hrsdarwish306 3 года назад

    "Water off a duck's back"

  • @qwertyman1511
    @qwertyman1511 3 года назад

    But what is the image with the duck with the spread open wings?
    My father wants it as his background.

  • @HotelPapa100
    @HotelPapa100 3 года назад

    Now someone tell the cormorants...

  • @Sparkyminor
    @Sparkyminor 3 года назад

    Engagement engagement engagement

  • @almostliterally593
    @almostliterally593 3 года назад

    Ducks aren’t mundane... they Are living theropod dinosaurs

  • @rocksandoil2241
    @rocksandoil2241 3 года назад

    You quack me up

  • @IamTheWaveFunction
    @IamTheWaveFunction 3 года назад

    What does a duck smoke?
    Quack

  • @gutarjunky
    @gutarjunky 3 года назад +10

    I'm so glad scientists are solving world problems like about ducks

    • @ogbobbyjohnson7788
      @ogbobbyjohnson7788 3 года назад

      Forreal😂😂

    • @miskatonicalumni5612
      @miskatonicalumni5612 3 года назад +2

      What scientists? Are you so dense that you think this is something taking up all the time of cancer research or something?
      Maybe you just wanted to be Mr Edgy McEdgelord?

    • @gutarjunky
      @gutarjunky 3 года назад

      What scientists? The ones in the video...Someone's mad that they couldn't come up with a zingger

  • @LuisAldamiz
    @LuisAldamiz 3 года назад

    Galileo: let's study birds to learn how to fly
    Some modern researchers: lets study birds to learn how to stay dry in water

    • @LuisAldamiz
      @LuisAldamiz 3 года назад

      PS - It was actually Ibn Farhan but Galileo got all the fame, whatever.

  • @lucretius8050
    @lucretius8050 3 года назад +2

    So it is like the face masks keeping out droplets.

  • @grandmasterapple6355
    @grandmasterapple6355 3 года назад

    Ducks obviously have an anti water forcefield

  • @pandit-jee-bihar
    @pandit-jee-bihar 3 года назад

    These surprising details about ducks makes me doubt the theory of evolution.
    Nature has many mysteries to keep the human beings feel surprised and small.

    • @BigRalphSmith
      @BigRalphSmith 3 года назад

      Explain why the physical properties of duck feathers make you doubt evolution.

    • @pandit-jee-bihar
      @pandit-jee-bihar 3 года назад

      @@BigRalphSmith The details of how their feathers are designed makes me wonder that species are evolving because of changing circumstances and need.
      Such design is only possible when it's designed intently and not randomly.
      This is something so sophisticated and beautiful that it could not have happened randomly due to evolution.

    • @BigRalphSmith
      @BigRalphSmith 3 года назад +1

      @@pandit-jee-bihar Okay, do you understand which type of fallacious thinking you are engaged in?
      Can you tell me (in a nut shell) how evolution works?

    • @antongrahn1499
      @antongrahn1499 3 года назад

      @@pandit-jee-bihar Its not random change. Specific traits are as part of natural variation, but which ones stick around over time is not random. Natural selection takes care of that.

    • @pandit-jee-bihar
      @pandit-jee-bihar 3 года назад

      @@antongrahn1499 There are mathematical challenge as well to the theory of evolution apart from the fact that it fails to explain the bigger things and appearance of new species.
      It does explain the small variations in feature of the same species found in different geographical locations which you are calling natural selection but mathematically the kind of possibilities that you have at a molecular level makes it impossible to predict appearance of a new species, so much so that it's almost random.

  • @peregrine1970
    @peregrine1970 3 года назад

    Wait..... Ducks are like Ogres? Layers!

  • @lenzzzzzzz
    @lenzzzzzzz 3 года назад

    I swear you guys have done this episode before!

  • @pablobratcat
    @pablobratcat 3 года назад

    I love ducks

  • @5urg3x
    @5urg3x 3 года назад

    Barnacles!

  • @twocvbloke
    @twocvbloke 3 года назад

    Thank goodness they weren't doing other reasearch that coincided with the british phrase for something that is difficult to pass through, "Tight as a duck's arse"... :P

  • @wayaway7
    @wayaway7 3 года назад

    They duck the water

  • @melethalewis9315
    @melethalewis9315 3 года назад

    Ducks were adapted to water because they have a kind of oil that helps them to stay dry.😍😍

    • @bazza945
      @bazza945 3 года назад

      Droil?

    • @melethalewis9315
      @melethalewis9315 3 года назад

      That's not a real word to me when you spell the alphabet.🤔☹️

  • @UltramarineDad
    @UltramarineDad 3 года назад

    That’s what she said

  • @josephcoatofmanycolors
    @josephcoatofmanycolors 3 года назад +4

    What do you call a rude duck?
    A duck with a quackitude.

  • @JasonFoks
    @JasonFoks 3 года назад

    "Wholly DUCK thats so cool hahahah"

  • @BigMobe
    @BigMobe 3 года назад

    Now we just need to know where afro duck goes to get his shape up.

  • @dkexpat2755
    @dkexpat2755 3 года назад

    Sometimes I wonder who pay for experiments like these :D So what do you do man? I test duck feathers !

  • @1TakoyakiStore
    @1TakoyakiStore 3 года назад

    I can tell you that this doesn't happen with anhinga's as they are on shore drying off their feathers all the time.

  • @FupaDoncic
    @FupaDoncic 3 года назад

    So you could say they got that drip?

  • @marxtheenigma873
    @marxtheenigma873 3 года назад

    Duck related question. I know ducks do this dabbling behavior to filter out food from water, but many times I've seen them do this on land, their dabbling beaks held right above the ground. Does anyone know why???

  • @michellehanson984
    @michellehanson984 3 года назад

    They wear quackintoshes

  • @StanjeBrojila
    @StanjeBrojila 3 года назад

    They duck the moisture?

  • @homerbartshow3101
    @homerbartshow3101 3 года назад

    Ducks love bread

    • @BrianIsWatching
      @BrianIsWatching 3 года назад

      But it's like junk food for them. Better not to give them bread unless you know how much they're getting throughout the day.

  • @mastema3433
    @mastema3433 3 года назад

    Shuba

  • @loganm2766
    @loganm2766 3 года назад

    Salty army REEEEEEE

  • @oldcowbb
    @oldcowbb 3 года назад +1

    because the weigh the same as a witch

  • @dschonsie
    @dschonsie 3 года назад

    pampers

  • @fatematujjahura4380
    @fatematujjahura4380 3 года назад

    Nice

  • @darthfader733
    @darthfader733 3 года назад

    It's because a duck weights more than as a witch.

    • @kensmith5694
      @kensmith5694 3 года назад

      Technically a duck weighs the same as the witch in question.

  • @robkitchen5344
    @robkitchen5344 3 года назад

    anyone who ever roasted a duck know why...oil and watet don't mix

  • @Amitdas-gk2it
    @Amitdas-gk2it 3 года назад

    Ok

  • @rockspectacle
    @rockspectacle 3 года назад

    Jinx monsoon brought me here

  • @emmy_grace
    @emmy_grace 3 года назад

    Oily bois🦆

  • @euniversitybangladesh710
    @euniversitybangladesh710 3 года назад

    Quack Science

  • @skadoodskadad316
    @skadoodskadad316 3 года назад

    Neat

  • @brendakrieger7000
    @brendakrieger7000 3 года назад

    Cool🦆

  • @zeroamericanhero
    @zeroamericanhero 3 года назад

    JinxMonsoon

  • @mugmushrooms9845
    @mugmushrooms9845 3 года назад

    Just say no to water.
    Water can't wet you without your consent.

  • @bensoncheung2801
    @bensoncheung2801 3 года назад

    Duck-o