Red Junglefowl
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The Red Junglefowl is a wild bird species that is the ancestor of the domesticated chicken we know today. Understanding this bird matters because it helps us learn about how humans first domesticated chickens and how this species relates to the poultry we raise for food and eggs.
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Species
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderGalliformes
- FamilyPhasianidae
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Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Gallus
- Mass
- +500
- Image
- Gallus gallus -Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India-8.jpg
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- P105
- species
- P141
- Least Concern
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The red junglefowl (Gallus gallus), also known as the Indian red junglefowl (and formerly the bankiva or bankiva-fowl), is a species of tropical, galliform bird in the phasianid family, found across much of Southeast and parts of South Asia.
The red junglefowl was the primary species to give rise to today's many breeds of domesticated chicken (G. g. domesticus). Lesser contributions came from the grey junglefowl (G. sonneratii), Sri Lankan junglefowl (G. lafayettii) and the Javanese green junglefowl (G. varius). Whole genome sequencing has revealed that the chicken was first domesticated from red junglefowl ca. 8,000 years ago, with this domestication event involving multiple maternal origins.