Sentence examples for duck death from inspiring English sources

By far the biggest provocation of the day was an animated German short adapted from Wolf Erlbruch's 2007 children's book, "Duck, Death and the Tulip".

There's a still more thought-provoking approach in the German book Duck, Death and the Tulip, in which Duck becomes aware, one day, that someone with a skull for a head, and a rather natty tartan coat, is following her everywhere.

He got around a statute of limitations by advancing the theory that he had just discovered that Lutcher Stark fraudulently undervalued Nita's 1939 estate to duck death taxes, depriving the sons of their full inheritance.

After local government agencies gave him little satisfaction in the duck deaths, which he calculates cost him $12,000, Mr. Zhang turned to a new legal-aid center in Beijing.

Officials first tried to treat the water with chemicals but they weren't effective enough to "fully reduce the parasite and snail populations" and stop additional duck deaths.

The ice is also being blamed for an "unprecedented" number of duck deaths in the region and there is a risk of major disruptions to the fish ecosystem due to delayed egg laying, The Atlantic Cities reports.

Retrospective analysis of duck deaths at farm B showed modestly enhanced cumulative values in at least 3 fattening flocks during midterm or toward the end of the fattening period (Table; Figure 1, panels A C).

However, reports of duck deaths and a higher than usual mortality rate (100% in some outbreaks) in backyard farms in Central Java, Jogjakarta, and East Java Provinces, Indonesia, in September 2012 triggered a joint outbreak investigation by animal and public health authorities (6 ).

Eleven households with a high likelihood of H5N1 (35%) in chickens also owned ducks, although only 2 of these described simultaneous deaths of ducks: 1 reported a duck flock death ratio of 80%, the other a ratio of 100%.

The product is so cruel to ducks that death rates skyrocket by 10 to 20 times during force-feeding, and all of the animals become sick and lethargic.

I particularly love that after Duck has died, Death strokes her crumpled feathers back into place.