There, the defendant, an adult man, had sent sexually explicit material via instant message to a 35-year-old decoy, who was posing as a 12-year-old girl.
With the introduction of lighter and hardier plastics in the 1960s, old wooden decoys were retired: tossed in garages, left on the water or put up on mantels, mainly forgotten except by hunters who saw sentimental value in them.
Females were more aggressive towards female and 1-year-old male decoys as compared to male decoys in the un-moulted treatment.
In addition, females solicited copulas from moulted, but not from un-moulted, 1-year-old male decoys.
We analysed aggressive and courtship behaviour of breeding males and females in the presence of adult male, adult female and 1-year-old male natural decoys.
"When the old guys look at a decoy, somewhere in their minds they see it floating in the water, as part of a rig, as part of hunting," says Donna Tonelli, a decoy historian.
Get an old or new foam turkey decoy, and some expanding spray foam sealant.
Duck decoys a century old.
Leather football helmets, wooden tennis racquets, duck decoys and even old folding kayaks have second lives.
An inventory of our house, by contrast, produced nothing more impressive than eight duck decoys, half a dozen old manual typewriters stored against the Y2K problem, four cats, nine stuffed bears and a vast number of books.
