I grew up in northeast Ohio in the 1970s, which meant, as a duck hunter , I grew up hearing duck sounds from mallards and black ducks, both of which quack. My father and I didn’t attempt to call wood ...

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The old saying that a duck's quack produces no echo is... well, just plain quackers. Daisy performs: The anechoic chamber has no sound reflections Acoustics expert Professor Trevor Cox has deployed ...

LONDON, England --A British study has debunked an urban myth -- that a duck's quack does not echo. A farmyard duck called Daisy was at the center of the acoustic research, carried out at the ...

There is an old wives’ tale that a duck’s quack has no echo. This has been proven not to be true in what can only be described as the best duck experiment ever. But the rumor has a basis in truth.

IT is one of those scientific pearls of wisdom that tend to be quoted after several pints: a duck's quack does not produce an echo, and no one knows why. IT is one of those scientific pearls of wisdom ...

In normal circumstances, quacking probably wouldn’t be considered as a sound you’d want to hear. But researchers from Soongsil University in Seoul, South Korea discovered that duck quacks were the ...