The yellow duck is one of the new code symbols of the color revolution, along with the image of a clenched fist, a flower, a sneaker, or a white ribbon.
The use of such symbols serves to mark “friend or foe.”
The principle of “friend or foe” division was the basis of the “color revolution” technology. The term appeared relatively recently. People who participated in the color revolution used special symbols: in Georgia - roses, in Kyrgyzstan - tulips, in Belarus - cornflowers, in Mexico - cacti, in Tunisia - jasmines, in Ukraine - orange scraps of fabric, in Egypt - dates, in Russia - white ribbons. This is such a “smart” replacement for a fighter’s uniform in war.
During a multi-hour meeting, the participants completely merge into a single mass, known in psychology as a crowd.
There is a complete emotional fusion of individuals with the crowd, in which bright “revolutionary” identification symbols begin to be used to identify friend or foe.
They control the crowd using technologies of influencing the subconscious, introducing new values and imperatives, reprogramming a person. It is precisely these technologies that are used in Protestant totalitarian sects.
The image of a duck is attractive for its cuteness, innocence, and humor. In the era of informatization of society, “memization” of consciousness, especially among the youth, the funny and nice yellow duck plays a special role.
“Quacking” in the streets, walking with toys creates the appearance of fun and even apolitical, peace-loving crowd, which at the first stage helps to gather more supporters. The fact is that not everyone is ready to enter into a deliberately direct conflict with law enforcement officers. Participate in a peaceful, fun event according to much more people. Demonstration of such a harmless attitude allows, at the first stage, to mislead the authorities and lull their vigilance.
In 2016, the duck became a meme in China, launched by bloggers on the anniversary of the crackdown on demonstrations in Beijing on June 4, 1989. In the famous photograph "The Unknown Rebel" the tanks were replaced with ducks.
CANVAS
The yellow duck symbol was proposed by the Center for Applied Nonviolent Actions and Strategies (CANVAS) in 2015 in Belgrade during a protest against new development.
CANVAS is dedicated to implementing Gene Sharp's "nonviolent overthrow of power" methods.
CANVAS operates under the auspices of the American Freedom House and the National Endowment for Democracy, and its sponsors include the Rockefeller Foundation, the Soros Foundation, the International Republican Institute, and the Einstein Institute.
Cover methodological manual CANVAS (190 pages): “Nonviolent struggle. 50 key points."
CANVAS currently trains specialists to overthrow regimes in more than 50 countries around the world.
CANVAS itself has existed since 2003 on the basis of the famous Otpor movement, which overthrew Slobodan Milosevic in 2000 according to the US scenario. Otpor then organized revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine in 2003 and 2004.
Otpor was led in 1999 by Marko Ivkovic, now a CANVAS specialist.
Marko Ivkovic
In 2011, Marko Ivkovic arrived in Yekaterinburg to create a local cell of the public organization for monitoring elections “Voice”. It was headed Leonid Volkov.
According to available information, Ivkovic continues to be a curator right hand Navalny - Leonida Volkova.
In 2012, the FSB expelled Ivkovic from Russian Federation with non-entry status.
Ivkovic is considered one of the most experienced and active organizers of anti-government protests in the post-Soviet space (Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine). Ivkovic is also the head of NDI regional programs. It is a national democratic institution for international issues- an organization created by the United States government, funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) to "advance democracy in developing countries" The organization's headquarters is located in Washington.
“NDI provides practical assistance to public and political leaders promoting democratic values, practices and institutions. NDI works with democrats in every region of the world to help build political and public organizations, ensuring fair elections and promoting civic participation, openness and accountability in government."
A waterfowl such as a duck began to be considered domestic at the very beginning of the 17th century. The monks first fed the feathered creature, and then began to breed it. However, ducks in those days were kept only on the water. But this is understandable, because they are excellent swimmers. What keeps them afloat? This is the topic that will be addressed in this review.
Ducks mean birds that are medium or small in size. There are quite a large number of varieties of these feathered creatures. They can be wild or domestic. In addition, breeders are producing more and more new breeds every year.
People started breeding birds quite a long time ago. This is necessary in order to obtain meat or eggs. Feathers can be used to make fillings for pillows or blankets. It is used in the creation of some sewing products. Based on all of the above, it can be noted that keeping ducks can be a profitable business.
The video shows how comfortable and at ease ducks feel in the water.
Why aren't birds afraid of water?
Why does a duck swim? What helps her stay afloat without visible effort? The bird has several features that help it feel great in the water. We should consider them in more detail to understand why the bird is not afraid of water.
It is no secret that most birds are able to land on water and spend some time on it. An air sac helps birds with this, contributing to a significant reduction in specific gravity.
However, there are creatures whose life is firmly connected with water. These include ducks. For this reason, domestic animals have developed adaptations at the physiological level that help not only swim, but also dive.
Help from fat secretion
Why don't birds drown? The body of feathered creatures is slightly flattened. Due to this, the birds are able to stay afloat. Winged creatures are also distinguished by the fact that their bones are hollow and light.
It should be noted that the feathers are waterproof. The plumage is covered with an oily liquid. It is thicker when compared with the fatty secretion of other birds. This substance prevents getting wet.
It is the oily liquid that is the reason that the bird feels great in rainy weather and can swim for a long time even if the water is cold. The substance is produced by a special gland. It is located under the tail.
Before starting water procedures, the process of lubricating the plumage is repeated again and again. The feathered creature stands up and begins to brush itself off. Muscular wave movements help lift the feathers at the base. This helps the oily liquid coat all existing feathers.
It should be noted that this substance helps to increase the volume of the bird’s body, which plays an important role during bathing. Numerous experiments have proven that if a bird is deprived of lubrication, it will not be able to swim. She will also drown if her body is covered with an impermeable substance (such as oil).
Subcutaneous fat in waterfowl is quite well developed. It can act as a thermostat, helping to prevent hypothermia if the water is cold.
Help from the paws
Why does the bird float confidently and at ease? Their paws help them with this. They are also necessary for swimming. The birds' three movable toes point upward. They are connected by a membrane.
There are types of ducks in which the edges between the fingers develop separately, which helps to increase the overall resistance surface. This feature also helps to increase the power of the push against the surface of the water during rowing.
Individual joints have a special structure that facilitates movement in water. Ducks' feet are mobile and powerful. It should be noted that they are not sensitive to cold. Accordingly, they do not freeze even in very cold liquids.
What other secrets does the bird have?
Why doesn't the bird drown? A duck's buoyancy has a lot to do with its plumage. It is constantly maintained “in order”. The feathers fit quite tightly to each other and to the body. They are impermeable to water.
The feathers have very thin barbs that are interlocked with each other. Miniature hooks help them with this. This interlocking of feathers helps make the plumage durable. Thanks to this, it retains its shape perfectly.
Why don't ducks drown? They are waterfowl. And their body is designed in such a way that they can spend as much time in water as possible.
Nature has endowed the bird with some other rather interesting means that allow it to cope with adverse weather conditions. For example, down helps a duck cope with low temperatures, not just its legs and oily substance.
There is a famous sign with which people have been trying to predict changes in the weather since ancient times. If a flock of ducks is “playing” on the water, expect rain. Accordingly, to the question of why a duck does not drown, a fairly simple explanation was previously found: natural forces do not allow it to do so.
Video “Original bathing”
Ducks can float very well. Why don't they drown, it was said. However, it should be noted that their swimming ability is sometimes original. You can verify this by watching the video.
The mallard is the closest “relative” of the domestic duck, which descended from it. It is characterized by increased adaptability to any living conditions. Traditionally, it settles in bodies of water with lush vegetation, preferring reed and reed thickets, although it can live even in urban environments - in parks, on nearby lakes and other bodies of water.
Description of a wild duck
Mallard is quite large in size wild duck(slightly smaller than home) and reaches half a meter in length. Usually its weight is one and a half kilograms, but some individuals can gain up to two kilograms (with a wing length of 30 centimeters). In flight, the wild duck is recognizable by its outline, which is somewhat reminiscent of a wine bottle. The voice is completely indistinguishable from a domestic duck. During the flight it makes characteristic ringing quack sounds.
The female is distinguished by its dark reddish-brown color and light belly (it has dark dots on the underside). The mirror is blue, the beak is slightly pink with a darkish center, the edges of the feathers are buffy-red. Its plumage is closest to the protective type.
The male wild duck is brighter and more colorful, especially during the mating season: on the neck and head there are black feathers with a green tint (sometimes the feather turns blue), on the chest there are brown ones. The beak is green-yellow (by the end of summer it turns completely green), the legs are orange. The central plumage on the tail is curled upward in ringlets. At the bottom of the neck there is a white necklace, which effectively differentiates the dark part of the neck and head from the lighter plumage below. The crop is chestnut, the belly is gray, light in color with dark markings. On the back, in addition to the gray plumage, small white lines are also observed. The mirror is brilliant blue (sometimes turning purple), bordered by white and velvety black lines.
Where do ducks live
The mallard duck is the most numerous wild duck in Russia, an inhabitant of almost all river valleys, ponds and lakes: the mallard is the most typical representative of the northern hemisphere. On the territory of Russia, the natural boundaries of ducks’ residence coincide with the trajectory located between the tundra and the forest. Very well represented in the northern regions of America. In general, the habitat of wild ducks extends throughout Europe, covering part North Africa, Asia (south to Mesopotamia), Kashmir, Japan and Mongolia.
Wintering ducks
The duck winters in the western part of Europe, India, Africa, and on Russian southern seas, on the Mediterranean Sea. Where there are bodies of water that do not freeze during the cold season, some birds do not leave their nesting sites and do not fly to warmer zones. Also, sometimes mallards stay in cities for the winter (in any case, more often than other types of ducks). Often, especially in warm winters, fly very close - to the Caspian and Black Seas, to the western regions of Europe. The mass migration of birds to warmer regions occurs in October. As ringing has shown, after wintering, mallards do not always return to nest in their native places.
Duck nesting
Duck nesting begins in April. Her favorite places are river valleys with stagnant water rich in marsh vegetation. Ducks can often be found in damp meadows, swamps, along river banks, and overgrown lakes. Occasionally she settles into abandoned nests of herons and crows (in trees), and does not disdain hollows with a wide passage. The nest is usually made of dry grass, reeds, reeds and weeds. It can be installed in both wet and dry places, but always in minimal accessibility to open water bodies. The nesting site is chosen in clumps of tall and impenetrable grass, in dead wood, windbreaks, in bushes and under trees.
In dry areas, a mallard duck's nest looks like a flat, but fairly deep hole in the ground, only lightly covered with dry and soft vegetation. In damp places it already represents a large pile of construction “raw materials” - reeds, dry grass, weeds, etc., in which there is a nesting hole. By the final stages of egg laying, fluff already appears in the nest, which by that time had attacked from the chest of the mallard. During incubation, the volume of down increases significantly and the bird folds it around the periphery of the nesting tray in a ring, forming high “sides” that cover it from the sides. When a duck leaves the nest to feed, she carefully covers the clutch with this down so that the eggs do not cool down and are not visible to her natural enemies.
The diameter of a mallard nest can reach from 200 to 290 millimeters, the height of the sides from ground level ranges from 40 to 140 millimeters.
The size of the tray is 150-200 millimeters, the depth is from 40 to 130 millimeters. It contains 8-11 greenish-white eggs measuring from 50x37 to 67x46 millimeters. Hatching for the mallard lasts 26 days (three weeks). Two-month-old chicks can already fly.
Habits of wild ducks Wild ducks are one of the main objects of hunting.
They are traditional game for hunters who shoot in floodplains and near lakes. In the summer, ducks are shot from the approach, scaring them away from their homes and driving them out of impassable thickets. In more open bodies of water, where there is no abundant and dense vegetation, hunting is carried out directly from boats. In both the first and second cases, in deep water, shot game is caught from the water by specially trained dogs. In shallow water, where there is simply marshy terrain or something like water meadows (especially in floodplains), you can pick up a duck yourself.
Often, a wild duck protects fledgling chicks: when the mother screams, the alarmed young usually rush into the thickets of cattails and reeds or dive under the water, finding salvation there from the approaching danger, and she herself often at this time takes the hunter’s dog far away from them. Ducks are birds of average or relatively small sizes
. The order Anatidae includes several birds, these can be mergansers, dabbling ducks, ducks, or about 100 other species. These birds can be both wild - their mallards, and - drakes and ducks themselves.
Ducks have been bred by humans since ancient times for meat and eggs; feathers are used to make filling for pillows, mattresses and blankets, and are also used in a number of sewing products.
On land, in water and air It is known that many birds can land on water and even spend some time on it, thanks to the air sac, which significantly reduces their specific gravity
. But there are birds whose life is directly connected with water, and ducks are one of them. In this regard, they have developed physiological adaptations and even diving.
Fat secretion The body of ducks is somewhat flattened, which helps them float better on the water. The bones are hollow, lightweight. The plumage is waterproof, coated with an oily liquid, and is much thicker than most birds, especially in the lower part of the body, which helps resist getting wet. That is why it tolerates autumn weather well and can stay in. The fatty liquid is produced by a special gland located near the duck.
Each time, before going into the water, the duck repeats the procedure of lubricating its feathers. The bird seems to shake itself off, making muscular wave movements, while the feathers rise at the base and “fat” easily covers each feather. The same fatty lubricant increases the volume of the duck’s body, which also plays an important role when swimming. It has been experimentally proven that if the bird is deprived of lubricant or covered with a dense layer of an impenetrable substance, for example, oil, the duck will not be able to swim.
The subcutaneous layer of fat in ducks is well developed; it serves as a thermostat, preventing hypothermia during low temperatures water.
Paw-flippers
The feet of these birds are also designed for swimming: three movable toes are directed forward and connected by a special swimming membrane. Some species develop a leathery edge on each toe individually, this increases the overall resistance surface and increases the power of the paw hitting the surface when paddling.
The structure of the paw joints also serves to facilitate movement in the water; they are mobile and powerful. It should also be noted that the feet of ducks simply do not feel cold and therefore not even at a fairly low water temperature.
Near the base of the tail, ducks have a coccygeal gland that produces lubricant. Every time I take water procedures, birds clean their plumage both during and after swimming. At the same time, they stimulate the sebaceous gland and distribute lubricant throughout the plumage, making it waterproof. If the gland stops producing lubricant, or the birds do not have constant access to water, ducks will not be able to apply an oily coating to the plumage and wash dirt from the feathers. For this reason, usually waterproof feathers get wet and remain wet after ducks leave the water.
Particularly sensitive to wet plumage. Therefore, when breeding them, it is very important to ensure that the feathers do not get wet and are clean, and that the ducks swim frequently.
Causes
Treatment
The treatment is as follows. Bring the sick duck indoors and bathe it in water using a soft liquid product to wash the dishes, and then rinse the plumage well clean water. Before releasing your duck back into the yard, allow the feathers—outer and under feathers—to dry completely. This procedure will remove old grease and any dirt on the feathers, and give the bird a chance to break out of the vicious circle and start over.
During the recovery period, the duck should not be allowed to bathe for some time; the only thing that can be allowed is to wet its head in a small tub of water to stimulate the process of cleaning the plumage with the help of lubricant. After a few days, you can allow the bird to swim for a short time. And only after you are sure that the duck's feathers have become waterproof again, can you allow her to swim as usual.
If you already have a duck that suffers from wet feathers, you will need to limit its time in the water, especially during the colder months, and you will need to thoroughly dry its feathers whenever they become wet.
The severity of the disease may vary. If the above treatment method does not work, then you will most likely have to wait until the duck moults and grows new feathers.
Adding some vitamin complexes or raw molasses to the feed of a sick bird will enrich its diet with essential nutrients. nutrients, vitamins and minerals, which will help her recover faster.
Peking ducks in the yard - video
