2003 Biology Ig Prize

In 2003, a Dutchman named Kees Moeliker won the Ig Nobel Prize for Biology after writing a paper on “the first case of homosexual necrophilia [by a mallard],” after he watched a duck die after crashing into his window, only for its corpse to be “raped almost continually for 75 mins” by another duck.

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