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The Wild Child (French: L'Enfant sauvage, released in the United Kingdom as The Wild Boy) is a 1970 French film by director François Truffaut.Featuring Jean-Pierre Cargol, François Truffaut, Françoise Seigner and Jean Dasté, it tells the story of a child who spends the first eleven or twelve years of his life with little or no human contact.
The Pekin or White Pekin is an American breed of domestic duck, raised primarily for meat. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] It derives from birds brought to the United States from China in the nineteenth century, [ 8 ] and is now bred in many parts of the world. [ 6 ]
In Australia, Wild Child was released 18 September, taking fourth place with only 93 cinemas and making $315,114. [11] The following week, it made a 60% increase with $566,918 [12] but still slipped to 6th place. On 16 October, Wild Child fell to 11th. As of November 2008, Wild Child had grossed US$3,268,424 (A$4,236,579) in Australia.
The mallard (/ ˈ m æ l ɑːr d, ˈ m æ l ər d /) or wild duck (Anas platyrhynchos) is a dabbling duck that breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Eurasia, and North Africa. It has been introduced to New Zealand , Australia , Peru , Brazil , Uruguay , Argentina , Chile , Colombia , the Falkland Islands , and South Africa .
The Duck Flock, flock of gangster mallard ducks who want revenge on a human gang in the music video "Get Up (Rattle)" The duck on the head of the beggar The Duck Man in the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett; DuckBob Spinowitz, man transformed into an anthropomorphic duck by aliens in the novel No Small Bills [9] by Aaron Rosenberg.
Before the 18th century, duck breeds were rarely recorded in England, and the common duck, bred for farming, was a domesticated form of the wild mallard. The common duck varied in colour, and as in the wild, white ducks would occasionally occur. [1] White ducks were particularly prized, as their feathers were popular as a filler for quilts. [2]
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German Pekin drake, illustration from Bruno Dürigen, Die Geflügelzucht, 1923 A caged German Pekin duck. The German Pekin, German: Deutsche Pekingente, is a European breed of domestic duck. It is commonly called simply Pekin or White Pekin. [4] [5] It is a different breed from the American Pekin, which is also commonly known by the same names ...