The short answer is yes, it does. But this is a science myth that has been quoted all over the place.
Professor Trevor Cox and a team at Salford University
recently did some research to get to the bottom of the problem with
the help of willing volunteer, Daisy the duck. They found that a duck’s
quack does echo, but it is quite hard to hear the echo because of the quality of the quack sound. A sound that fades in and out (like a duck quack)
makes an echo which can become mixed up with the original sound being
made. This means it is hard to distinguish one from the other.
Professor Trevor Cox and a team at Salford University
recently did some research to get to the bottom of the problem with
the help of willing volunteer, Daisy the duck. They found that a duck’s
quack does echo, but it is quite hard to hear the echo because of the quality of the quack sound. A sound that fades in and out (like a duck quack)
makes an echo which can become mixed up with the original sound being
made. This means it is hard to distinguish one from the other.
The other reason the myth may have arisen is because you don’t
often find ducks hanging around places where you commonly get echoes,
like cliffs on a beach, or large cathedrals!
