Sentences with phrase «red junglefowl»
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.
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Boldness, metabolism and serotonin levels in divergently selected red junglefowl (Gallus gallus).
Even the plainest Perdue chicken traces its ancestry to the wild and flashy red junglefowl (Gallus gallus) of Southeast Asia.
From an original pool of about 60 male - female pairs of red junglefowl, they have bred hundreds of birds.
A long - term breeding experiment is redomesticating wild red junglefowl, the chicken's ancestor.