Jungle Fowl Facts: the WILD CHICKEN?! 🐔 Animal Fact Files

Jungle fowl (sometimes spelled junglefowl) are sometimes called the wild chicken, but there are some differences between domestic chickens and jungle fowl. There are four jungle fowl species. Learn more jungle fowl facts on this episode of Animal Fact Files!

Scientific Name: Genus - Gallus
Range: Asia
Habitat: forest, forest edges, and open areas
Size:
Males - average 28 inches (74cm) in length; almost two pounds (907g) in weight
Females - about 16 inches (41cm) long; weigh just over a pound (454g) on average
Diet: seeds, insects and their eggs, worms, fruits, berries, leaves, small reptiles and more
Threats: birds of prey and ground dwelling mammals and reptiles
Lifespan: 10 years

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Junglefowl NOT A CHICKEN 0:00
Junglefowl SPECIES 0:26
Junglefowl VS CHICKEN 1:09
Junglefowl DIET 1:29
Junglefowl SOUND 2:23
Junglefowl HABITAT 2:52
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Junglefowl SIZE 4:15
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[SuperResnick]

When he says that red jungle fowl are not chickens, he means to say that the term chicken originally meant as a domesticated animal. In fact, chickens or chicks, use to mean just the babies, or hatchlings. The females are hens, and the males are cocks/roosters. By the 19th century, chicken became the standard name of the bird, probably because we call the meat chicken regardless of the age.

But for etymological consistency, the original wild variant is not considered a chicken.

[Slievenamon]

I Just want to mention that domestic chickens come in a variety of leg colours rabging from slate grey, yellow, white, blue, green, black and even mottled. The yellow legs is thought to have come from a genetic infusion from the Grey Junglefowl.

[aluwanimoyo]

So we start by saying they're not chickens and then we describe FREAKING CHICKENS for the whole video 😂

[brucelee]

If it looks like a chicken, acts like a chicken and taste like a chicken it’s a chicken .
This dude just straight described a Chicken.

[kaseyenloe]

My first encounter with a Jungle Fowl in real life was when the Houston Zoo used to have a Green Jungle Fowl in their Tropical Bird House exhibit.

He could be spotted below the forest floor in the large, walk-through aviary part of the building. Definitely one of the most unique sights I ever saw.

I couldn't forget how beautiful the colors of his feathers and wattled appeared.

[Chikanuk]

-Literally a wild chiken.
-"Its not a chiken!"

[--Paws--]

So the heavy metal rooster is a jungle fowl not a chicken...

[_robustus_]

This is similar to the relationship between domesticated dogs and grey wolves.

[SpydrXIII]

FINALLY someone does a video on Jungle Fowls!

[tj_mora]

Calling junglefowls chickens is like calling wolves dogs.

[KenMikaze]

That jungle fowl you're referring to, is what we call, native chicken here in the Philippines. They're mostly domesticated, eaten and oft times used for cock fighting.

[indyreno]

Technically speaking chickens and junglefowl are actually the same thing, chickens (or junglefowl) are any gamebird of the Gallus genus, the domestic chicken is cladistically a subspecies of the bankiva chicken (or red junglefowl).

[Kruppt]

we live up in the mountains on the Big Island of Hawaii, a red jungle fowl moved himself in to our land. So we got him a wide variety of hens and started a flock that got to be about 30 ish chickens. We have fenced in acres, built a big chicken coop and let them free range 100% of the time and only harvest the eggs. We called him Roosty Juniper Fowlish, sadly he passed a year ago he lived for a long time 7 or 8 years from when we found him or he found us. he gave us many generations of chickens that we still have.

[eunaekim]

This Pokémon knows Agility, but although it has wings, it doesn't know Fly!

[ahmadhasif]

Lol in Malaysia, these chikens move in village sleep on tree at night,
Yes it’s different from super wild, but still can fly and protective of hen while scratching

[chisaquaticvibe]

Domestic chicken: Are you ready to fight me? Jungle fowl: I was born ready.

[misticismoNATURAL]

I live in Brazil and I have those same birds as domesticated chicken. They are more rustic animals than normal chickens. Last winter, a otter killed one that was hatching its eggs. I listened that, but I didn't know where it was. 10 days after this, in a cold night I start to hear chicks and yes, it was from the dead hen's nest despite the winter and temperatures near 12°C at night, here we have hot days. From the ten eggs hatched, three survived without the mother half of its hatching time. They are small, but they can hatch one dozen of eggs, including some average sized. Great mothers!

[greyson]

here in the Philippines we called these fowls as 'Labuyo' they are elusive and shy but easy to catch if the hen had chicks with her as they would be aggressive and keeps fighting

[IIDynamoDuckII]

Seen one in Central Thailand in the jungle, I was confused, I said "really, chickens out here" and was told "No, not chicken, look like, but not chicken" which made me even more confused, I was thinking to myself "I know what a chicken looks like" 😂

[usefulbobcat]

"not a chicken" points to a rooster