Red Junglefowl
Gallus gallus · Bird
The wild ancestor of the chicken, tamed some 8,000 years ago, living in South and Southeast Asia in secondary forest, forest edges, regrowth and scrub up to 1,500 m. It feeds in clearings in the morning and evening and roosts up in trees. It is still an important source of meat and eggs where it lives, and cocks are used for cockfighting; most wild birds now carry chicken blood.
- Danger
- Harmless
- How it is met
- In flocks, at dawn and dusk
- Size
- Small
- In winter
- Active in winter
Where it lives
Gives
Junglefowl Meat, Junglefowl Egg, Junglefowl Feathers
Sources
- Zoe Gautier, Gallus gallus (red junglefowl). Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, 2002.
- Red junglefowl. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 2026.
- Coq doré. Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre, 2026.
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