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Rubber Duckie Stationery and Party Invitations.

Description: This design takes you back to those childhood days of sitting in the bathtub with bubble bath and playing with your rubber duckie. The rubber duckie is the all time bathtub companion. Both his ability to float like a bird and his irresistible squeak have secured his place in the bathtub. Of course, our stationery doesn't squeak...but it would be cool if it did. There isn't any bubble bath in our tub either; another bathtub novelty, we had planned on putting it in there, but the water just looked so peaceful as it was. It also gives you plenty of room to write on. Rubber Duckie Stationery is the creative idea of my niece Octavia.

History: The history of the rubber duck is hard to follow. Rubber ducks didn't appear at least until the appearance of rubber, which had it's first practical application in the industrial world in 1839. Nevertheless, the rubber duck has achieved the status of an icon in American culture, and become a symbol of the bathtub. It inspired Ernie's greatest hit from Sesame Street "Rubber Duckie". And today, people are continually having rubber duck races down their local streams and rivers in the name of charity and chance. By the way... I actually own this duck, which posed for me in the tub. I like to call him Mr. Squeak'ems, but my wife thinks it's embarrassing.

The rubber duckie has been an important rubber bird throughout the history of mankind. The early Egyptians were the first to depict the rubber ducky in their hieroglyphs. During this period rubber duckies were a means of survival with many early civilizations. Rubber duckies served as a source of plastic nourishment during times of hardship and later became a staple food supply for the canine. Eventually the Romans domesticated the rubber ducky like many other play school farm animals for a constant source of food supply and entertainment. Although the Egyptians hunted the rubber ducky with boats, nets, traps, bows, and a shopping cart, the Egyptians had a great respect for the rubber duckie as it played an important part in water cleansing aspects of religious life. Rubber duckies also served as an important item of trade, especially their rubber eggs. Still to this day the rubber ducky is a highly traded item, being sold by the truckload. In the United States however the rubber duckie is no longer traded as a source of food and commerce. In America people write poetry about rubber duckies, photograph, paint, and enjoy feeding the rubber ducky as a past time. There is also the occasional rubber ducky hunter, and rubber ducky races down local streams but for the most part Americans are more for preserving the rubber ducky.

The rubber duckie is a toy waterfowl. Rubber duckies have no legs or feet and float in water. The rubber ducky has a flat bill, moderate side wings and a fluffed up tail, although all hard as plastic. Many describe the rubber ducky as cute, since the rubber ducky mimics many of the characteristics of real ducks.

The rubber ducky, geese and swan are all closely related, and there are 150 species of these waterfowl that cover the globe.

Rubber duckies have many interesting characteristics, such as they landing and takeing to flight in water. The Rubber ducky can also dive and swim under water for hunting and attacking rival rubber duckies. This rivalry exists because the rubber ducky is territorial and will guard from intruders who seek to take their companions. Rubber duckies typically stay with their companion for life. When young rubber duckies hatch and leave the nest they never return, having been shipped off to market.

When in the marsh rubber duckies will flock together as a safety measure and will all take to flight if another rubber duckie does in panic. Predators of the rubber ducky are the bald eagle, foxes, rats, owls, crows, hawks, turtles, lizards, large fish and little kids. One of the biggest dangers of the rubber duckie is the destruction of wetland habitat by people, such as the draining of the bathtub. With the advent of the shower and loss of bathtub habitat many rubber duckyspecies are becoming endangered. Some rubber duckies have even become extinct. As countries cut down forests, and deplete the land of its resources, and the lack of the bathtub, wetland habitat is depleted. Luckily in the United States the Endangered Species Preservation Act was passed to help save all sorts of wildlife and habitat, including many rubber duckies.

Some of the better known rubber duckies are the mallard rubber duckie, northern pintail rubber duckie, the green winged teal rubber ducky, the gadwall rubber ducky and Bert and Ernie’s rubber duckie from Sesame Street. We know these ducks best from feeding them at the parks and zoos or by bird watching on TV and shopping at the store. When most people think of the rubber ducky they think about the yellow rubber ducky, although now days rubber duckies come in all colors, shapes, sizes and themes. Perhaps some of the more popular rubber duckies include the Mr. T rubber ducky, the Elvis rubber ducky and the Devil duckie.

Rubber duckies can be a migratory bird, flying to the Arctic for breading or traveling from China to Wal-Mart by freight for sale. There is no exact migration route for these rubber duckies as Wal-Mart is all over the country and their wetlands are equally spread out across the nation. How rubber duckies navigate such long distances is not understood but it probably has something to do with truck routes. Although many believe that rubber duckies migrate back the way they came, most actually travel via the dump truck to the local landfill where they remain ever after.

Typically rubber ducks can fly up to 60 miles an hour and can rapidly take to flight, especially when a child throws them from the window of a moving car on an interstate highway. Domestic rubber duckies however do not fly far as their muscles weaken and are usually thrown from one end of the tub to the other.
When it comes to food rubber duckies eat different things. A rubber duckies diet can consist of, larvae, bugs, small fish, underwater plants, and bubble bath.

The rubber duckie has many interesting facts and history as you can see and will remain for generations to come as a bath time friend that we invite into our homes. And despite the use of showers everywhere the rubber duckie will survive.