grey junglefowl

English
grey junglefowl (female)

Noun

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:
      Moreover, […] the gene for yellow legs, an 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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