Ducks
Rosemary Luff
The mallard, Anas platyrhynchos, is the most ubiquitous taxon in subfamily Anatinae of family Anatidae. It ancestor domestic ducks, males which still sport ancestral curling feathers upper tail (Delacour 1956–64; Gooders 1975; and Boyer 1986). Because wild mallard so widespread Northern Hemisphere, it extremely likely that was widely utilized by humans probably domesticated different areas at times. amount variability duck very small compared with found chicken (Thomson 1964), would seem present-day ducks evolved gradually (Woelfle 1967), process becoming larger than type, much more variety color, size, gait (Clayton 1984). Domestic have also lost ability to fly.
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