 The quintessential yellow rubber duck.
 Some variations on the standard rubber duck. Clockwise from left: a miniature rubber duck, a purple devil rubber duck, a rubber duck dressed as a reindeer for Christmas, a rubber duck in sunglasses, and a black "dead" rubber duck that floats upside down.
A rubber duck, or rubber duckyor rubber dude, is a toy shaped like a duck that is made of rubber or rubber-like material such as vinyl plastic. Almost all modern rubber ducks are made out of vinyl plastic rather than rubber. Most commonly, rubber ducks are designed to be used as floating bathtub toys. Not all rubber ducks are bath toys. Some rubber ducks are dolls or play figures similar to other squeeze or squeak toys typically given to children and sometimes dogs. Rubber ducks can be found in various colours, sizes, shapes, and outfits. Rubber ducks have achieved status as a popular icon and, while still primarily considered a children's toy, are used by people of all ages. Rubber duck may refer to: Rubber duck, a toy. ...
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Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses (RB2132 901L) Sunglasses or sun glasses are a visual aid, variously termed spectacles or glasses, which feature lenses that are coloured or darkened to prevent strong light from reaching the eyes. ...
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Subfamilies Dendrocygninae Oxyurinae Anatinae Aythyinae Merginae Duck is the common name for a number of species in the Anatidae family of birds. ...
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Chemical structure of the vinyl functional group. ...
For other uses, see Plastic (disambiguation). ...
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Trinomial name Canis lupus familiaris The dog (Canis lupus familiaris) is a domestic subspecies of the wolf, a mammal of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. ...
Rubber ducks may be equipped with a squeaker that makes a whistling or squeaking sound. More rarely the toy may have a squeaker that makes a sound resembling the quack of a real duck. Bath toy ducks sometimes have a hole in the bill which allows the toy to take in and then squirt water, emulating the actions of real ducks. A squeaker can be: the most beautiful girl in Chicago!! an instrument that makes a squeaking sound. ...
Subfamilies Dendrocygninae Oxyurinae Anatinae Aythyinae Merginae Duck is the common name for a number of species in the Anatidae family of birds. ...
History
The origin of the rubber duck is not known, but its history is inevitably linked to the emergence of rubber manufacturing in the late 1800s. The earliest rubber ducks were made from harder rubber and lacked squeakers. The yellow rubber duck has achieved an iconic status in American pop culture. In the United States the rubber duck is often symbolically linked to bathing or bath tubs and bubbles and to babies and toddlers. This does not cite any references or sources. ...
Popular culture, or pop culture, is the vernacular (peoples) culture that prevails in a modern society. ...
Jim Henson popularized rubber ducks in 1970, performing "Rubber Duckie" as Ernie, a popular Muppet from Sesame Street. The song had two follow ups, "Do de Rubber Duck", and "DUCKIE", and Ernie frequently spoke to the duck and carried it with him in other segments of the show. Jim Henson, born James Maury Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990), was the most widely known American puppeteer in modern American television history. ...
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John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together The Muppets are a group of puppets and costume characters created by Jim Henson and the company he created. ...
Sesame Street is an American educational childrens television series for preschoolers and is a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both education and entertainment. ...
As the rubber duck has grown in popularity over the years, many variants are sold including "devil ducks" "dead ducks" and "bride and groom" ducks.
In 2001, The Sun, a British tabloid newspaper reported that Queen Elizabeth II has a rubber duck that wears an inflatable crown in her bathroom. The duck was spotted by a workman who was repainting her bathroom.[1] The story prompted sales of rubber ducks in the United Kingdom to increase by 80% for a short period. Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...
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Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of sixteen sovereign states, holding each crown and title equally. ...
A crown is a symbolic form of headgear worn by a monarch or by a god, for whom the crown is traditionally one of the symbols of power and legitimacy (See Regalia for a broader treatment). ...
Rubber ducks are collected by a small number of enthusiasts in countries including: the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Japan, Singapore, New Zealand, United States, and the Netherlands. The Guinness World Record for World's Largest Rubber Duck Collection numbered 2,583 unique rubber ducks in 2006. Suresh Joachim, minutes away from breaking the ironing world record at 55 hours and 5 minutes, at Shoppers World, Brampton. ...
Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The rubber duck can be referred to informally as a rubber duckie or a rubber ducky. Amongst collectors of rubber ducks, the spelling rubber duckie has achieved prominence, but both spellings are considered acceptable.
Ducks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology The MIT dorm Simmons Hall boasts a large collection of rubber duckies displayed prominently in the building's yin-yang sculpture. Initially there was much controversy over the degredation of the art piece, but the ducks continue to float on for most of the year, weather allowing. Included in the ducky collection is a very large, 3' long duck fitted with a stylish construction helmet symbolizing the engineers at MIT. This duck resides in the pebble portion of the sculpture (balancing the many small ducks in the other half, e.g. yin-yang).
Duck races Some charities have run rubber duck races in which hundreds or thousands of rubber ducks are dumped into a river, pool, or other body of water and then are floated down a race course marked off with buoys. The first one to float past the finish line is a winner (similar to the game Poohsticks). The rubber ducks are then retrieved and used again later. Due to environmental concerns, sites for duck races must be chosen with care. There are hundreds of races held in the USA and internationally. The largest race in the United States benefits the Freestore Foodbank in Cincinnati, OH where over 100,000 ducks are raced to raise money for the organization. Poohsticks Bridge, Ashdown Forest Poohsticks is a game first mentioned as being played by Winnie the Pooh and friends in the book The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne, as well as in the animated featurette Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore. ...
One of the more famous rubber duck races is the Great Knoxville Rubber Duck Race[1]. This race received attention when the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled that it was a lottery, which stopped the race for a few years. After the state amended their constitution to allow lotteries with special exceptions, the race was reinstituted. In 2006 the river Liffey in Dublin hosted the worlds largest duck race with 150,000 ducks. The Liffey in West Wicklow The Liffey (An Life in Irish) is a river in the Republic of Ireland, which flows through the centre of Dublin. ...
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One other race was conducted in Australia in 1988. It was run from the "High level bridge" to the "Low level bridge" near Katherine, NT on the Australia Day long weekend in January 1988. Acting on behalf of the town's Bicentennial Committee, Royal Australian Air Force officers Andrew Cairns and Jock MacGowan constructed the release cage from PVC pipe, purchased and numbered the ducks, printed tickets and even managed to arrange a helicopter flypast for the auspicious occasion.
Rubber ducks are used in small quanties as herding targets for radio controlled model yachts, the objective being to move all of the loose ducks into a floating pen. San Francisco Model Yacht Club X class (1000 square inches, few other restrictions), beating upwind under vane rudder control on Spreckles Lake in San Franciscos Golden Gate Park. ...
Rubber ducks in oceanography Main article: Friendly Floatees The 2006 range of Friendly Floatees. ...
During a Pacific storm on January 10th 1992, three 40ft containers were washed off a ship containing 30,000 Friendly Floatees plastic bath toys from a Chinese factory. Two thirds of the ducks floated south and landed 3 months later on the shores of Indonesia, Australia and South America. The remaining 10,000 ducks headed north to Alaska and then completed a full circle back near Japan, caught up in the North Pacific Gyre current. Many of the ducks then entered the Bering Straight between Alaska and Russia and were trapped in the Arctic ice. They moved through the ice at a rate of 1 mile per day and in 2000 they were sighted in the North Atlantic. The movement of the ducks had been monitored by Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an American oceanographer. Anyone who finds a duck can claim a $100 reward from First Years Inc. The 2006 range of Friendly Floatees. ...
The North Pacific Gyre (also known as the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre) is a swirling vortex of ocean currents comprising most of the northern Pacific Ocean. ...
Satellite photo of the Bering Strait Bering Strait is also a country music band The Bering Strait is a sea strait between Cape Dezhnev, the eastmost point of the Asian continent and Cape Prince of Wales, the westernmost point of the American continent, about 85 km in width, with a...
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The red line indicates the 10°C isotherm in July, commonly used to define the Arctic region border Artificially coloured topographical map of the Arctic region The Arctic is the region around the Earths North Pole, opposite the Antarctic region around the South Pole. ...
The Atlantic Ocean is Earths second-largest ocean, covering approximately one_fifth of its surface. ...
Curtis C. Ebbesmeyer is an American oceanographer who, in retirement, has studied the movement of flotsam. ...
Oceanography (from Ocean + Greek γράφειν = write), also called oceanology and marine science is the study of the earths oceans and their interlinked ecosystems and chemical and physical processes. ...
The First Years is a registered brand of The First Years Inc. ...
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