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The paper does not provide the exact number of penises eaten by ducks, but the author says there have been enough over the years to prompt the coining of a popular saying: 'I better get home or the ducks will have something to eat.

The paper does not provide the exact number of penises eaten by ducks, but the author says there have been enough over the years to prompt the coining of a popular saying: 'I better get home or the ducks will have something to eat.

Approximate author period: c. 1959 AD · modern

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Mary Roach
Attribution: attributed
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Historical period
Approximate author period: c. 1959 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1959; activity date not established; Wikidata Q444136, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q444136 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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