Today’s red jungle fowl — the wild forebears of the domesticated chicken — are becoming more chickenlike. New research suggests that a large proportion of the wild fowl’s DNA has been inherited from ...

Gujarat’s jungles will be reintroduced to the near-extinct feathered friend, the red jungle fowl. Subjected to human cupidity, both in terms of its narrowing habitats and rampant poaching, the bird ...

Charles Darwin first proposed that chickens may have descended from the red jungle fowl because of their similar appearances. (Pictured: A red jungle fowl) Subramanya C K via Wikimedia Commons under ...

Some call it the original chicken. Rightly so, because the Red Jungle Fowl — Gallus gallus as it is known scientifically — is considered the ancestor of domestic breeds of fowls. Some call it the ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Shimla, Dec 14 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Sukhu on Saturday landed in fresh trouble as a video surfaced showing him allegedly being served a red jungle fowl, a ...

The wiry bird scuffling around in the mountainous forests near the northern Thailand-Myanmar border does not look like much, but this scrawny red jungle fowl has been tapped as the primary ancestor of ...

The domesticated chicken, Gallus gallus domesticus, is the most numerous domestic animal and a preferred source of animal protein. Chicken domestication has been thought (based on traditional measures ...

Contrafreeloading (CFL), i.e. choosing food which requires work over free food, occurs at a higher rate in red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus) compared to White Leghorn layers. We examined whether this ...