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    Mallard (redirect from Anas platyrhynchos)
    The mallard (/ˈmælɑːrd, ˈmælərd/) or wild duck (Anas platyrhynchos) is a dabbling duck that breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Eurasia...
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    Domestic ducks (mainly mallard, Anas platyrhynchos domesticus, with some Muscovy ducks, Cairina moschata domestica) are ducks that have been domesticated...
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    The Mariana mallard or Oustalet's duck (Anas oustaleti) is an extinct species of duck of the genus Anas that was endemic to the Mariana Islands. Its taxonomic...
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    The genus now contains 31 living species. The name Anas is the Latin for "duck". The genus Anas was introduced by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus...
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    has previously been considered an island subspecies of the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos). However, all major authorities now consider this form to be a distinct...
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    appear in any duck breed or type deriving from the wild Mallard, Anas platyrhynchos, with a frequency of some 0.0001%–0.001% of all eggs hatched.: 89 ...
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    for a critical period for imprinting in khaki campbell ducklings (Anas platyrhynchos domesticus). Animal Behaviour, vol. 22, no. 1. pp. 249–255. Also used...
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    Indian Runners are a breed of Anas platyrhynchos domesticus, the domestic duck. They stand erect like penguins and, rather than waddling, they run. The...
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    Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata domestica) and the domestic duck (Anas platyrhynchos domesticus), derived from the wild mallard. American Pekins and other...
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    American Pekin (redirect from Anas peking)
    Male: 4.5 kg (10 lb): 28  Female: 4.1 kg (9 lb): 28  Egg colour white or tinted Classification APA heavy EE yes PCGB no Domestic duck Anas platyrhynchos...
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    result of a genetic mutation fairly common in breeds derived from Anas platyrhynchos. The Cayuga has other characteristics compatible with derivation from...
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    morphological similarities are due to convergent evolution. In addition, the genus Anas, as traditionally defined, is not monophyletic; several South American species...
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    all the varieties of domestic ducks are descended from the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), apart from the Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata). The Call duck is...
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    eastern grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) Leucistic female mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) Female house sparrow with incomplete leucism (Passer domesticus)...
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    abstract) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Anas diazi. Wikispecies has information related to Anas diazi. "Anas diazi. NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer...
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    Meller's duck (Anas melleri) is a species of the dabbling duck genus Anas. It is endemic to eastern Madagascar. Although a population was established on...
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    with all the other ducks, geese and swans in the genus Anas and coined the binomial name Anas superciliosa. Gmelin based his description on the "Supercilious...
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  • a small sea duck Anas aucklandica, the Auckland teal Anas melleri, Meller's duck Anas platyrhynchos, the mallard, a wild duck Anas (أنس) is an Arabic...
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    duck (Aythya fuligula), red-crested pochard (Netta rufina), mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), greylag goose (Anser anser), pygmy cormorant (Microcarbo pygmeus)...
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    present differences between sexes while others, like the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), have distinctly different syrinxes between males and females. This...
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    Muscovy duck (redirect from Anas moschata)
    beef—than the usual domestic ducks, which are descendants of the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos). The meat is lean when compared to the fatty meat of mallard-derived...
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    November 2001). "The First Case of Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard Anas platyrhynchos (Aves: Anatidae)" (PDF). Deinsea. 8 (2001): 243–247. Retrieved 6 October...
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    hybridize with multiple other species. For example, the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) is known to interbreed with at least 40 different species. The ecological...
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    of the sudden and dramatic death (on 5 June 1995) of the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) that entered the scientific literature as the first victim of homosexual...
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  • bronchial cartilages in the syrinx of birds. In some birds such as Anas platyrhynchos the pessulus may be ossified. Yilmaz, Bestami; Yilmaz, Rahşan; Arican...
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    the hybrid cross of a male Muscovy duck and a female Pekin duck (Anas platyrhynchos domestica) called the Mulard duck. This hybrid is sterile and is,...
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    (2001). "The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard Anas platyrhynchos (Aves: Anatidae)". Deinsea. 8: 243–247. ISSN 0923-9308. Archived from...
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  • condor Vultur gryphus Cathartidae 6,500 metres (21,300 feet) Mallard Anas platyrhynchos Anatidae 6,400 metres (21,000 feet) This height was recorded over...
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  • querquedula Meller's duck, Anas melleri (I) Mallard, Anas platyrhynchos (A) Domestic duck, Anas platyrhynchos domesticus Mauritius duck, Anas theodori (X) White-faced...
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    Kreisinger, J.; Albrecht, T. (October 2008). "Nest protection in mallards Anas platyrhynchos: untangling the role of crypsis and parental behaviour". Functional...
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