Sentences with word «junglefowl»

Wright bred wild red junglefowl chickens with their calmer cousins, white leghorn chickens, for the experiment.

Eventually they ended up with one line of very fearful junglefowl and one line of fearless ones.

And by comparing the wild ancestor — the tamed junglefowl — with the fully domesticated chicken, it may be possible to get at the genetic basis of these trait changes, he says.

The main wild ancestor of today's chickens, the red junglefowl Gallus gallus is endemic to sub-Himalayan northern India, southern China and Southeast Asia, where chickens were first domesticated 6,000 - 8,000 years ago.

Even the plainest Perdue chicken traces its ancestry to the wild and flashy red junglefowl (Gallus gallus) of Southeast Asia.

A long - term breeding experiment is redomesticating wild red junglefowl, the chicken's ancestor.

From an original pool of about 60 male - female pairs of red junglefowl, they have bred hundreds of birds.

Boldness, metabolism and serotonin levels in divergently selected red junglefowl (Gallus gallus).

The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a type of domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the red junglefowl.