Why is Muscovy duck called muscovy?

Question

the characteristics of the duck

Answer 1

It probably came from Moscow just like the Peking duck came from Peking.

Answer 2

LOL...Sorry I just thought of an inside joke that involved muscovy ducks!!!

Answer 3

I imagine you'd have to ask Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist, who gave the duck its name in1758.
"The first edition of Systema Naturae was printed in the Netherlands in 1735. It was an eleven page work. By the time it reached its 10th edition (1758), it classified 4,400 species of animals and 7,700 species of plants. In it, the unwieldy names mostly used at the time, such as "Physalis annua ramosissima, ramis angulosis glabris, foliis dentato-serratis", were supplemented with concise and now familiar "binomials", composed of the generic name, followed by a specific epithet, e.g. Physalis angulata. These binomials could serve as a label to refer to the species. Higher taxa were constructed and arranged in a simple and orderly manner. Although the system, now known as binomial nomenclature, was developed by the Bauhin brothers (see Gaspard Bauhin and Johann Bauhin) almost 200 years earlier, Linnaeus was the first to use it consistently throughout the work, also in monospecific genera, and may be said to have popularized it within the scientific community.
Linnaeus named taxa in ways that personally struck him as common-sensical; for example, human beings are Homo sapiens (see sapience). He also briefly described a second human species, Homo troglodytes ("cave-dwelling man"). This was however likely a confusion originating from exaggerated second- or third-hand accounts of the chimpanzee (currently most often placed in a different genus, as Pan troglodytes). The group "mammalia" are named for their mammary glands because one of the defining characteristics of mammals is that they nurse their young."

Since he named taxa "common-sensically", I'd assume his experience with the ducks indicated that they came from Russia, specifically the Moscow region.

Answer 4

i could collect those you could. The alligators will consume them in the event that they get the prospect. The final infant is probable close to with the help of. To achieveable entice the toddlers, placed your clenched fist on your mouth. Now open a tiny slit, placed your different hand on good of the hollow and blow, circulate you loose hand up and down over the hollow. Ounce you have them, take them to a park pound. Alligator loose. in line with danger with different geese there. Then they might watch how the others proceed to exist and learn from them. keep an eye fixed out for the forth one. If their mom is ineffective, then they don't have of project without different geese to income from. i'm hoping they are going to be ok. I wish you and the ducklings the perfect of luck! P.s. in case you do attempt to capture them they're going to flee, so be difficult and sneaky. And purely use the call in case you should. ;)

Answer 5

and the eider duck came from an eider down .... and the Canadian goose comes from ...... oh it does !