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That's cool that these ducks have been useful to science.
Quoted: The ducks began life in a Chinese factory and were being shipped to the US from Hong Kong when three 40ft containers fell into the Pacific during a storm on January 29, 1992. Two thirds of them floated south through the tropics, landing months later on the shores of Indonesia, Australia and South America. But 10,000 headed north and by the end of the year were off Alaska and heading back westwards. It took three years for the ducks to circle east to Japan, past the original drop site and then back to Alaska on a current known as the North Pacific Gyre before continuing north towards the Arctic.
Eric Carle wrote a story based on this, or a similar story. My son's quite the fan.
I heard this guy on NRP last year, it is really interesting
Quoted: A flotilla of plastic ducks is heading for Britain’s beaches, according to an American oceanographer.
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