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  Red junglefowl

The chicken  is a domesticated fowl, As one of the most common and widespread domestic animals with a population of more than 24 billion in 2003, there are more chickens in the world than any other species of bird. Humans keep chickens primarily as a source of food, consuming both theirmeat and their eggs.

ancestor: red junglefowl

Chickens are omnivores

They are covered by feather.

Chickens may live for five to ten years.The world's oldest chicken, a hen, died of heart failure at the age of 16 according to the Guinness Book of World Records

Roosters can usually be differentiated from hens.

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