Devon Maloney. Saturday 30 April 2016 10.53 EDT Last modified on Monday 6 February 2017 09.24 EST. Margaret Atwoodâs feminist dystopian classic The Handmaidâs Tale is on its way to a series adaptation â Hulu in charge, Atwood consulting, and Elisabeth Moss starring as the titular handmaid Offred.
Mandarin is by far the largest of the seven or ten Chinese dialect groups, with 70 per cent of Chinese speakers and a huge area stretching from Yunnan in the southwest to Xinjiang in the northwest and Heilongjiang in the northeast.
The mandarin duck (Aix galericulata), or just mandarin, is a perching duck species found in East Asia.It is medium-sized, at 41â49 cm (16â19 in) long with a 65â75 cm (26â30 in) wingspan. As the other member of the genus Aix, it is closely related to the North American wood duck.he greatest threat to the mandarin duck is habitat loss due to loggers. Hunters are also a threat to the mandarin duck, because often they are unable to recognize the mandarin in flight and as a result, many are shot by accident.