junglefowl

Endocrine-immune interactions, ornaments and mate choice in red junglefowl.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

Endocrine-immune interactions, ornaments and mate choice in red junglefowl.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

Endocrine-immune interactions, ornaments and mate choice in red junglefowl.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

The study, published inProceeding of the Royal Society B, is based on tests of red junglefowl, an ancestor of chickens.

Sperms swim faster toward attractive females 2009

The Ceylon junglefowl (Gallus lafayetii) is limited to the ecoregion's area in northern Sri Lanka.

Deccan thorn scrub forests 2008

Jerdon's courser Rhinoptilus bitorquatus Phasianidae Ceylon junglefowl Gallus lafayetii Capitonidae Yellow-fronted barbet Megalaima flavifrons An asterisk signifies that the species 'range is limited to this ecoregion.

Deccan thorn scrub forests 2008

Interestingly, this mate selection mechanism differs from that of Red junglefowl G.g. murghi where, according to some studies, females chose mates depending on comb size and other morphological features.

Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

But we found nothing except a few gaudy junglefowl clucking and pecking around their former coops.

The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992

Although little known to most people, the red junglefowl has contributed more to every nation than any other wild bird.

5 Chicken 1991

A thousand years later, by the time of Queen Hatshepsut (about 1475 B.C.), the junglefowl (the ancestor of the chicken) had arrived, and from then on it was raised on a substantial scale.

5 Chicken 1991