The sound strangely resembled a duck’s quack and thus, named accordingly. The sound was heard as four short bursts of frequencies, repeatedly emitting from the deep ends of the ocean encouraged ...

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 ...

Scientists analyzed mysterious sound recordings from the ocean, called the "bio-duck." These quacks could be a deep sea conversation.

Since the 1960s, a strange, repetitious quacking noise called a “bio-duck,” which can frequently be heard in the Southern Ocean, has puzzled marine biologists and underwater acoustic experts.

Mysterious sounds emanating from the depths of the ocean could be a conversation. Researchers say the famous ‘Bio-Duck’ quacks were made by several speakers ...

And I guess that the original myth about the sound of the duck's quack being echo-free is just quackers... Tags: pseudoscience, weird-and-wonderful, zoology ^ to top. Published 06 May 2004.

"What all this shows is that the duck's quack fades away; it sounds like it quacks for a long time. "Because the duck's quack is rather quiet anyway and the echo comes on the back of a fading sound ...

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And duck quacks echo; the sound they make fades in and out, so it’s hard to tell the first quack from the echoes. We lived in Indiana a few years ago and had a pond in our backyard.

And while the jury is still out on the quack’s exact culprit–or culprits–there’s a new theory. ... the Bio-Duck sounds may very well come from some kind of animal.