To be fair, that does happen a lot. Not so much in front of the kids, but male ducks can be horrible little shits during mating season.
If there's anything I would never want to be reincarnated as, a duck would be near the top of the list. Especially a female duck. I would never want to be the unwilling recipient of anything that was barbed, corkscrewed, and up to 17 inches in length.