Hundreds of genetic mutations accumulated over thousands of years have transformed the red jungle fowl of South Asia into the domesticated chickens that are a fixture on farms -- and dining tables ...

About 20 to 50 percent of modern jungle fowl DNA comes from domesticated chickens due to interbreeding, threatening the genetic diversity and long-term survival of the wild birds, which live in ...

According to the forest department, six pairs of red jungle fowl were kept for captive breeding in 2020-21. This produced F-1 generation of 50 chicks in 2021-22.

IN the Proceedings of the Zoological Society, 1890, p. 48, Mr. Bartlett makes the following statement on the subject of the crowing of the jungle fowl: “There can be no doubt that the origin of ...

As Eben Gering, an evolutionary biologist at Nova Southeastern University, explained to Danovich, Hawaii's modern-day chickens are descendants of the wild red jungle fowl that were brought to the ...

"Jungli Murga (Grey Jungle fowl) is an endangered species listed in Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, and the Wildlife (Protection) Amendment Act 2022.

IN the letter in your last issue (p. 295), in which Mr. Forbes endeavours to controvert my statement with reference to the crowing of jungle fowl, his account is extremely vague and indefinite. He ...