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Also known as Gallus gallus domesticus, chickens, vistas

The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a domesticated form of the red junglefowl (Gallus gallus), originally native to Southeast Asia. It was first domesticated around 8,000 years ago and is one of the most common and widespread domesticated animals in the world. Chickens are primarily kept for their meat and eggs, though they are also kept as pets.

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Chicken is a taxon classified as a subspecies of the Red Junglefowl, with the scientific name Gallus gallus domesticus. It is recognized as a model organism and a productive animal within the poultry category. The subject has parts including roosters and hens. It serves as a source for chicken as food and chicken eggs, and its heart rate is recorded at 275.

The taxon is associated with the Holocene time period and is maintained by WikiProject Birds and WikiProject Agriculture. It appears in the Commons category Chickens and is described by sources such as the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Gujin Tushu Jicheng, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, and Pauly–Wissowa. The Unicode character for chicken is 🐔. It is referenced by 3,542 other encyclopedia articles and has a PubMed count of 192314 for the query chicken.

Synthesized by Vinony from 24 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, PubMed, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.