{"id":496,"date":"2014-01-02T04:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=496"},"modified":"2015-01-13T00:31:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T05:31:29","slug":"wild-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2014\/01\/02\/wild-ducks\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wild ducks also know as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mallard\" title=\"Mallard\" target=\"_blank\">mallard <\/a>(Anas platyrhynchos) is the ancestor of most of our domestic ducks that are used for the production of all the deliciousness mentioned in <a href=\"\/tag\/duck\/\" title=\"Duck\">other posts<\/a> on this site.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWild ducks are quite beautiful birds, particularly the male has bright colored feathers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_495\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/WildDucksNormalColor.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-495\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/WildDucksNormalColor.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of a pair of wild ducks.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"648\" class=\"size-full wp-image-495\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/WildDucksNormalColor.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/WildDucksNormalColor-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pair of wild ducks.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This pair of wild ducks liked to be photographed better, although this male has an unusual coloration for a wild duck:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_494\" style=\"width: 1162px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/WildDucks.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-494\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/WildDucks.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of a pair of wild ducks.\" width=\"1152\" height=\"648\" class=\"size-full wp-image-494\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/WildDucks.jpg 1152w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/WildDucks-300x168.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/WildDucks-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pair of wild ducks &#8212; the male has an unusual coloration.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>These are city dwelling wild ducks and they have been frolicking right in front of me without fear.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H3tu-rlYl7Y?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In more rural areas they are hunted for their meat, apparently in areas where they can gorge themselves on grains they even produce a sort of wild <a href=\"\/2013\/12\/30\/foie-gras-de-canard\/\" title=\"Foie Gras de Canard\">foie gras<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2010\/11\/ethical-foie-gras-no-force-feeding-necessary\/66261\/\" title=\"Ethical Foie Gras: No Force-Feeding Necessary\" target=\"_blank\">Ethical Foie Gras: No Force-Feeding Necessary<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The article referenced above also suggests that another point I am trying to make on this website &#8212; sugars (grains) make you fat &#8212; is true for ducks too, not just for humans.<\/p>\n<h4>See also:<\/h4>\n<p><div class=\"clear\">&nbsp;<\/div><div class=\"piclink_captioned\"><a href=\"\/2014\/04\/25\/mallards-in-toronto\/\" title=\"Mallards in Toronto\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Mallards-Milliken_Park-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Mallards in Toronto\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"\/2014\/04\/25\/mallards-in-toronto\/\" title=\"Mallards in Toronto\">Mallards in Toronto<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\">&nbsp;<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wild ducks also know as mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) is the ancestor of most of our domestic ducks that are used for the production of all the deliciousness mentioned in other posts on this site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[65,37,32,8,9,36,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}