Jungle Fowl

Jungle Fowl Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology common name for small, terrestrial wild fowl comprising four species in the genus Gallus.

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Red Jungle Fowl All domestic chickens are descended from the wild Red Jungle Fowl of Southeast Asia. These birds still exist in the wild in the jungles of northeastern India.

Researchers have sequenced the genome of the red jungle fowl, an early version of what we know today as the chicken, giving scientists new insight into many human diseases and possibly avian flu. (more) ...

Every breed of domestic chicken can be traced to the red jungle fowl. The comb is the basis of the Latin name or classification of chickens. In Latin, gallus means comb, and the domestic chicken is Gallus domesticus.

True Pheasants, Peafowl, and Jungle Fowl. Encyclopedia of Birds. Singapore. Kyodo Printing Co (Singapore) Ltd 1990. (Mahalo to Leeward Community College's Zoology 101 Class for their contribution) ...

The more than 150 breeds and varieties of domestic chickens known today are thought to have descended from the red jungle fowl of Asia, where they still exist in the wild.

Pheasant General name for a family of henlike birds related to the grouse (Phasianitae) which also includes the old world Partridge , the peacock , and various domestic and jungle fowls , and the true pheasants (genus Phasianus).

The Phasianidae are a family of terrestrial birds which consists of quails, partridges, snowcocks, francolins, spurfowls, tragopans, monals, pheasants, peafowls and jungle fowls.

The bird's scientific name-Meleagris gallopavo-compounds the confusion: Gallo is Latin for jungle fowl, or chicken; pavo is Latin for peacock; and meleagris is Greek for guinea fowl, making the turkey a 'guinea fowl chicken peacock.' ...

See also: Pheasant, Red Jungle Fowl, Fly, Turkey, Peafowl