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[–] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It's so the male duck can scrape the semen of any previous partners out of the female duck's vagina. This was a random mutation that somehow became dominant because it perpetuated the species. Unlike leaving all that semen in there, which ... wouldn't ... have?

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Remember, sexual selection favors traits that benefit the carrier, being able to have a mate exclusively bear their offspring and excluding competitors would favor their genes, unlike the mate potentially bearing offspring from multiple contributors (even within a single clutch, but I’m not sure about that part, not a biologist)

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