The whole proceedings have to be told in two minutes flat even if she is hoarse having quacked the whole time she was away. Her poor mate, as many a husband will know when his wife gets going, only manages a get a word in edgeways by saying "yes! yes! yes!" over and over again. (If you don't believe me have a listen!)
When it comes to the mating game, if her husband hasn't already done so, this little madam is not adverse to initiating the proceedings by bobbing her head up and down thereby getting the drake to reciprocate. This lasts a while before she stretches her neck out and flattens her back thus enticing her mate to mount and mate her. Sometimes though, all is fair in love and war and there can be a dramatic behavioural change as in this story of a happy threesome I once had – an apricot female, a blue fawn male and a blue silver male.
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