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The history of the first rubber duck seems to have been lost with time. However, we do know that the history of rubber ducks is related to the history of rubber manufacturing, early rubber (and later synthetic rubber) toys including cars and dolls, and also the history of squeak toys. Many of the earliest rubber ducks were not bath toys at all.

Some variations on the standard rubber duck, clockwise from left: A miniature rubber duckie, a devil rubber duckie, a rubber duckie decked out as a reindeer for Christmas, a cool rubber duckie in sunglasses, and a dead rubber duckie that floats upside down. 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.

Today, most rubber ducks are made of vinyl plastic. Rubber ducks have achieved status as a popular icon and, while still primarily considered a children's toy, are used and loved by people of all ages. Rubber ducks are collected by a small number of enthusiasts.

With their longstanding popularity has come the ability to parodize the standard rubber duckie; buyers can find them in various colors, sizes, and molded-on outfits to suit any occasion. The yellow rubber duckie is iconic in at least American culture; it appears almost anywhere at almost any time, sometimes in mass quantities. Some charities have run rubber duckie races, in which hundreds of donors "buy" rubber ducks, hundreds or thousands of which are then dumped into a stream or river and the first one to float past the finish line is a winner. In recent years, this practice has lessened as ecologists have frowned upon what amounts to a tremendous amount of trash released into freshwater systems.

Rubber Duck can also refer to a Combat Rubber Raiding Craft bundled onto a wooden platform with a canopy and dropped from an aircraft with a parachute. This method is used by US Navy SEALs to deploy quickly into the ocean from various aircraft.

Rubber Duck can also refer to a short, flexible, rubber or plastic-coated radio antenna.

External links

• Photos of a rubber duck derby
• An accidental dumping of rubber ducks mid-ocean has helped teach us about ocean currents

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