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Amazon’s Mystery Duck

Screenshot: Shoshana Wodinsky (Gizmodo)

If you scroll all the way to the bottom of the wall of code building up Amazon’s site, you’ll find… a duck. But not just any duck: a duck that meows. The Duck’s been a part of Amazon’s site for years—since about 2016, from what internet sleuths have been able to dig up. And while rumors about what it might mean have floated around programming circles since the start, nobody seems to know where Duck came from, why Duck exists, and why Duck doesn’t make regular Duck sounds.