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on June 5th 1995 a male mallard collided with a new glass wall at the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam, died, then was immediately copulated by another male mallard for 75 minutes. It became know as “the first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard,” and spring-boarded Dead Duck Day.

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Fun Fact: on June 5th 1995 a male mallard collided with a new glass wall at the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam, died, then was immediately copulated by another male mallard for 75 minutes. It became know as “the first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard,” and spring-boarded Dead Duck Day.

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