clipped from: www.nzherald.co.nz A taxpayer-funded study concluding that ducks enjoy water washing over them has angered several people. The three-year study by two scientists from Oxford University, costing $767,000, found ducks may be even more comfortable standing under a sprinkler than paddling around in a pond. Ducks given access to a pond, a water trough and a shower spent most of the time under the shower.
Susie Squire of the Taxpayers' Alliance called the research a "bonkers waste of money. It is common sense that ducks like rain and water. The last thing the Government should be allocating scarce resources to is this sort of nonsense". (Source: Observer)
