So what kind of duck is Daffy?

[Der Captain]

I had grown up like just about everyone else watching Daffy Duck cartoons and I was familiar with Dinky Duck as well. It was only as I got older that it occured to me that I've never in my life seen a solid black duck. Recently I came across a book on waterfowl which contained pictures of practically any type of duck you could ever encounter, but although some of them had black markings, not one was solid black. Anyone ever see such a duck? If not, how would you catagorize Daffy?

[Leviathan]

There's a SPECIES of duck called the American Black Duck: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/American_Black_Duck_dtl.html If Daffy could be classified as any specific type of duck at all, I'd probably go with that.

[JPox]

You may find your answer here:
http://jedaniels-adventures.blogspot.com/2008/02/looney-trivia-calendar.html
I posted these on my blog from an old Looney Tunes trivia calendar.

[David Gerstein]

There's a SPECIES of duck called the American Black Duck: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/American_Black_Duck_dtl.htmlNomn...

http://rosepoultry.dk/opskrifter/popskrift.2005-12-29.7274718380/billede

I have so got to eat dinner.

[Debbie]

I have submitted your question to the reknowned Duckologist Professor Ludwig Von Drake. After about a half an hour of lecturing in which Von Drake seemed to babble on endlessly while struggling with a movie screen and dropping several books on his nephew Donald's feet, he came up with this answer: "Daffy is a cartoon duck." Or a "Duckus Cartoonius", for those of us out there who wish to follow Chuck Jones' lead in creating obviously phony "scientific" names. Needless to say, the next time I have a question, I think that I won't ask Ludwig Von Drake for an answer.

[Duck Dodgers]

It's a cartoon duck.

[Geezil]

Nomn...

http://rosepoultry.dk/opskrifter/popskrift.2005-12-29.7274718380/billede

I have so got to eat dinner.

All together now, one, two, three: "You bring the duck!" :D

[Ray Pointer]

Actually that goes:

WIMPY: "Come on in for a Duck Dinner. YOU bring THE DUCK!":sailor:

[oceansoul]

Maybe a geoduck (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoduck). :eek:

[Geezil]

Anyway, thank goodness he's not one of these.


http://archives.bulbagarden.net/w/upload/5/53/054Psyduck.png (http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Image:054Psyduck.png)

[Duck Dodgers]

Anyway, thank goodness he's not one of these.


http://archives.bulbagarden.net/w/upload/5/53/054Psyduck.png (http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Image:054Psyduck.png)


Hilarious!!
Is this from "Teen Titans"? LOL!

[Larry T]

Hilarious!!
Is this from "Teen Titans"? LOL!

LOL no it's from "Pocket Monsters", AKA Pokemon.

Black Duck Info (http://www.kwic.com/~longpointbio/Reserve/Publications/Black%20Duck/blkduck.htm)

The black duck has markings almost the same as a Mallard, the blue wing feathers, green head plumage, and sometimes the white ring around the neck

Funny thing is that the "Black Duck" identified previously, is actually a very dark brown in color, which would make a few of those Korean redrawns correct. :p

[Cartman]

That's easy. Daffy is just a "CRAZY DARNFOOL DUCK":daffy::D

[J Lee]

Freleng and Maltese do note at the start of "Duck Soup to Nuts" that Daffy does kind of stand out in a crowd. ;)

[JPox]

Seems the answer is "Black Iago" which is reference to Shakespeare's Othello....?

[Geezil]

Hilarious!!
Is this from "Teen Titans"? LOL!

If only. :D But Larry T neatly beat me to nailing the real source.

[BloodyChamp]

Daffy is a Ringneck duck, which has similarities with your American Black duck. He's a Ringneck though. I know this because you don't eat black ducks but you eat Ringnecks. Although Elmer could have that little detail backwards...

[jonmayo15]

He's a "Daffy" Duck.

But seriously Daffy often called himself "a little black duck" but that probably was just a reference to his color.

[Geezil]

"There he is, Officer! He did it! He painted all those mustaches around town!"


http://www.impactoutdoors.com/files/photos/26657d5ff9020d2L.jpg

[Der Captain]

"There he is, Officer! He did it! He painted all those mustaches around town!"


http://www.impactoutdoors.com/files/photos/26657d5ff9020d2L.jpg

But that duck is not solid black. And the ones that are called "black ducks" have dark but not really black feathers. Both Daffy and Dinky appear to be a breed that only exist in cartoons.

[Geezil]

But that duck is not solid black. And the ones that are called "black ducks" have dark but not really black feathers. Both Daffy and Dinky appear to be a breed that only exist in cartoons.

Yes, I understand that's so, thanks. However...

Daffy is a Ringneck duck, which has similarities with your American Black duck. He's a Ringneck though. I know this because you don't eat black ducks but you eat Ringnecks. Although Elmer could have that little detail backwards...