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Command Decision was successful at the box office in 1949 [10] earning $2,901,000 in the US and Canada and $784,000 elsewhere. However, due to its high cost, MGM recorded a loss of $130,000 on the movie. [1] [11] It was named as one of the ten best films of 1948 by The New York Times and by Film Daily. [12]
They are avid foragers that eat a wide variety of things like slugs, mosquitoes, snails, grass, wild greens, and small fish and crustaceans. Runner ducks aren't like other domestic ducks. They're ...
The mallard itself is the ancestor of most domestic ducks, and its naturally evolved wild gene pool gets genetically polluted in turn by the domestic and feral populations. [ 122 ] Over time, a continuum of hybrids ranging between almost typical examples of either species develop; the speciation process is beginning to reverse itself. [ 123 ]
The domestic duck features in the musical composition Peter and the Wolf, written by the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev in 1936. [35] The orchestra illustrates the children's story while the narrator tells it. [36] In this, a domestic duck and a little bird argue on each other's flight capabilities. The duck is represented by the oboe.
The Muscovy is commonly reared for meat. [4]: 78 Mulards from the crossing of a Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata) and a wild-type mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)In commercial production, it is often crossed with a mallard-derived domestic duck such as the Rouen or Pekin to produce the hybrid known as a mulard.
Domestic Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata domestica) Wild Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata sylvestris) 700–600 BCE [44] South America: meat, eggs, feathers, manure, guarding, pest control, show, pets Tame, some physical changes Common in captivity, feral populations rare 2a Anseriformes: Barbary dove or ringed turtle dove (Streptopelia risoria)
[46] [47] The Call duck is another example of a domestic duck breed. Its name comes from its original use established by hunters, as a decoy to attract wild mallards from the sky, into traps set for them on the ground. The call duck is the world's smallest domestic duck breed, as it weighs less than 1 kg (2.2 lb). [48]
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