Stock Photo: Male Chicken (Gallus Gallus Domesticus) Surveying It’s Surroundings : (Pix Sanjiv Shukla)
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Chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a type of domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the red junglefowl (Gallus gallus). They are one of the most common and widespread domestic animals. There are more chickens in the world than any other bird or domesticated fowl. Genetic studies have pointed to multiple maternal origins in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia, but with the clade found in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa originating in the Indian subcontinent. From ancient India, the domesticated chicken spread to Lydia in western Asia Minor, and to Greece by the 5th century BC.
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