junglefowl

• “The study, published inProceeding of the Royal Society B, is based on tests of red junglefowl, an ancestor of chickens.”

  Sperms swim faster toward attractive females

• “Endocrine-immune interactions, ornaments and mate choice in red junglefowl.”

  Simon & Schuster: Parasite Rex

• “The Ceylon junglefowl (Gallus lafayetii) is limited to the ecoregion's area in northern Sri Lanka.”

  Deccan thorn scrub forests

• “Jerdon's courser Rhinoptilus bitorquatus Phasianidae Ceylon junglefowl Gallus lafayetii Capitonidae Yellow-fronted barbet Megalaima flavifrons An asterisk signifies that the species 'range is limited to this ecoregion.”

  Deccan thorn scrub forests

• “Interestingly, this mate selection mechanism differs from that of Red junglefowl G.g. murghi where, according to some studies, females chose mates depending on comb size and other morphological features.”

  Archive 2006-06-01

• “But we found nothing except a few gaudy junglefowl clucking and pecking around their former coops.”

  The Gates of Noon

• “Although little known to most people, the red junglefowl has contributed more to every nation than any other wild bird.”

  5 Chicken

• “A thousand years later, by the time of Queen Hatshepsut (about 1475 B.C.), the junglefowl (the ancestor of the chicken) had arrived, and from then on it was raised on a substantial scale.”

  5 Chicken

• “One pheasant, the red junglefowl, gave the world the chicken”

  5 Chicken

• “The wild junglefowl, however, has feathered legs, a down-curving tail, and an overall scragginess.”

  5 Chicken

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