Researchers from Linköping University suggest a process by which the timid junglefowl from the rain forest could have become today's domesticated chicken. When the scientists selectively bred the ...

It’s well established that today’s chickens are descended from the red junglefowl, a still-living species of wild bird. But ...

Domesticated chickens descend from red junglefowl of southeast Asia. These birds are only capable of short flights and lift-offs from trees. Coupled with the fact that chickens are primarily bred ...

The forest department has started a breeding centre for red junglefowl in Jambughoda, where these fowl have already started laying eggs. Once their numbers grow in the next few months, hundreds of ...

Leader of Opposition and former Chief Minister Jairam Thakur led lawmakers of the party and staged a protest over the killing of the bird, the red jungle fowl or "jungli murga", in nature before ...