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Least Concernvia IUCN
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- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
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- Gallus sonneratii
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- litter size
- 4.5
- egg incubation period
- 20
- endemic to
- India
- taxon common name
- soneratova kokoš
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Encyclopedic overview
The grey junglefowl (Gallus sonneratii), also known as Sonnerat's junglefowl, is one of the wild ancestors of the domestic chicken together with the red junglefowl and other junglefowls.
The species epithet commemorates the French explorer Pierre Sonnerat. Local names include Komri in Rajasthan, Geera kur or Parda komri in Gondi, Jangli Murghi in Hindi, Raan kombdi in Marathi, Kattu Kozhi in Tamil and Malayalam, Kaadu koli in Kannada and Tella adavi kodi in Telugu.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Grey Junglefowl” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.