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Chicken
Rooster
Scientific Classification
Kingdom Animalia
Conservation Status
DMSpecies
Domesticated

The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the red junglefowl. The word "chicken" comes from Middle English chiken which comes from Old English cicen which is Proto-West-Germanic *kiukīn which is descended from Proto-Germanic *kukkīnaz which is a compound from *kukkaz meaning "chicken" of onomatopoeic origin + *-īnaz which is a diminutive suffix from Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos. As one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, with a population of more than 19 billion in 2011,[1] there are more chickens in the world than any other species of bird or domestic animal. Humans keep chickens primarily as a source of food, consuming both their meat and their eggs. The earliest known domestication occurred in Northern China 8,000 BCE determined from archaeological chicken bones.[2] Previously genetic studies have pointed to multiple maternal origins in Southeast, East, and South Asia, but with the clade found in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa originating in the Indian subcontinent. From India, the domesticated chicken was imported to Lydia in western Asia Minor, and to Greece by the fifth century BC.[3] Fowl had been known in Egypt since the mid-15th century BC, with the "bird that gives birth every day" having come to Egypt from the land between Syria and Shinar, Babylonia, according to the annals of Thutmose II

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