Australian birds aren’t exactly known for their use of “fowl” language, but thanks to a musk duck named Ripper and the discovery of a 35-year-old recording, that might be about to change.

A professor researching vocal learning in birds stumbled across a 1987 recording of a cussing musk duck. Vocal learning among most animals is an advanced trait and relatively rare, so this ...

Audio of an Australian musk duck swearing recorded in 1987 recently resurfaced, proving to researchers that this bird species can learn to mimic human speech and more ...

Scientists found recordings of a male duck mimicking human speech, but say it can only vocalize the phrase "you bloody fool." Retired Australian researcher Dr. Peter Fullagar recorded the musk ...

A researcher recently found a decades-old recording of an Australian musk duck named Ripper. Carel Ten Cate says the duck is saying what sounds like, "You bloody fool." Good morning. I'm Noel King.

Adult musk ducks raised in captivity can mimic the sounds they heard as hatchlings, such as a pony snorting, a door slamming, a man coughing and even what was probably a former caretaker’s ...