Red Jungle Fowl
May 24th 2011 04:12
Photograph by Vincent J. Musi, National Geographic
This Month in Photo of the Day: Animal Photos
Wild red jungle fowl, progenitors of the modern chicken, crowd a pen near Statesboro, Georgia. Remnants of a population collected in north-central India in the early 1960s, these birds may be the last of their kind—genetically speaking. As humans push farther into the wild bird’s South Asian habitat, the chickens they bring with them interbreed with jungle fowl, polluting their genomes.
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