London ducks quack it louder
Date: 07-Jun-04
Country: UK
Victoria de Rijke of Middlesex University compared ducks in central London to peers in quiet, rural Cornwall as part of her academic quest to answer the crucial question: 'Do ducks quack in the same way all over the world?'
"There are definite differences between them, with the London ducks noisier, laughing raucously, and the Cornish ones soft and chilled-out," she said last week, attributing this to the need for city dwellers to make themselves heard over a background drone of police sirens, aeroplanes, trains and other noises.
