ScienceSeptember 6, 2026
junglefowl
JUNG-gul-fowl
Definition
A wild bird that belongs to the pheasant family, notably including the ancestor of the domestic chicken.
Etymology
The term combines the word 'jungle', from the Sanskrit 'jangala' meaning uncultivated land, and 'fowl', from the Old English 'fugol' meaning bird.
In the news
The article mentions red junglefowl as an example of a species in which blink rates have been observed to increase alongside group size.
Thirty-five dogs watched forty second videos of three human faces, one of them their own owner's, and blinked at a higher rate when the faces on screen were blinking, an increase that showed up for owners and not detectably for strangers, with no significant
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