grey junglefowl

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English

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grey junglefowl (female)

Noun

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grey junglefowl (plural grey junglefowl or grey junglefowls)

  1. A species of fowl, Gallus sonneratii, endemic to India.
    • 2016 August 24, Hanneke Meijer, “How did the chicken, a shy, flight-impaired forest bird, migrate around the globe?”, in The Guardian[1]:
      Moreover, […] the gene for yellow legs, an[sic] ubiquitous characteristic of domesticated chickens, can be traced back to the closely related grey junglefowl (Gallus sonneratii) (Eriksson et al., 2008) rather than the red junglefowl.

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