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Definition of Jungle fowl

Jungle fowl
The jungles of India are of bamboos, canes, and other palms, very difficult to penetrate. -- Balfour (Cyc. of India). Jungle bear (Zo["o]l.), the aswail or sloth bear. Jungle cat (Zo["o]l.), the chaus. Jungle cock (Zo["o]l.), the male of a jungle fowl. Jungle fowl. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any wild species of the genus Gallus, of which several species inhabit India and the adjacent islands; as, the fork-tailed jungle fowl (G. varius) of Java, G. Stanleyi of Ceylon, and G. Bankiva of India. Note: The latter, which resembles the domestic gamecock, is supposed to be one of the original species from which the domestic fowl was derived. (b) An Australian grallatorial bird (Megapodius tumulus) which is allied to the brush turkey, and, like the latter, lays its eggs in mounds of vegetable matter, where they are hatched by the heat produced by decomposition.

Meaning of Jungle fowl from wikipedia

- (and formerly the bankiva or bankiva-fowl), is a species of tropical, predominantly terrestrial bird in the fowl and pheasant family, Phasianidae, found...
- Barbary partridge (A. barbara) Red-legged partridge (A. rufa) Perdicula Jungle bush quail (P. asiatica) Rock bush quail (P. argoondah) Painted bush quail...
- Fatema (1990) Jungle Cat Felis chaus and Grey Junglefowl Gallus sonneratii. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 87(1):144. Morris, RC (1927) A jungle fowl problem. J...
- original large fowl. It was created in New Jersey in the 1940s by a breeder named Frank Gary. He cross-bred the wild Red Jungle Fowl with fighting bantams...
- sea-level up to 2000 metres of elevation. As with other jungle fowl, Sri Lankan jungle fowl are primarily terrestrial. They spend most of their time...
- millet Raishan (Digitaria compacta) Jungle rice (Echinochloa colona) Little Millet Zebu Red jungle fowl Grey jungle fowl Sesame seed (Sesamum indi****) Sugarcane...
- domesticated. The chicken was most likely domesticated for its eggs (from jungle fowl native to tropical and subtropical Southeast Asia and Indian subcontinent)...
- Nature. It is home to rarest & highly endangered species like Binturong, Jungle Fowl, Pangolin, Hornbill, Leopard, Porcupine, Python, Lesser Adjutant, Stork...
- through the interbreeding and domestication of multiple species of wild jungle fowl is poorly understood, and the point at which this evolving organism became...
- Bengal vulture, sunbird, white wagtail, crow pheasant, jungle crow, egrets, myna, jungle fowl, parakeets, partridges, hoopoe, quails, wood****s, blue...