Sri Lanka is also home to over 200 resident bird species of which over 24 are endemic, including Jungle Fowl.
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Animals found in the park include, the Tiger, Civet, Elephant, Gaur ( Indian bison ), Indian Boar and Red jungle fowl.
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The once common jungle fowl will not be able to fly across and will have problems getting to its water source.
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Chickens are descended from the wild red jungle fowl of India, where they were first domesticated about 5, 000 years ago.
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To test this hypothesis, red jungle fowl males were infected with a parasitic roundworm and monitored for growth and developmental changes.
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Thornhill, an evolutionary biologist at the University of New Mexico, studies the mating behavior of scorpion flies, red jungle fowl and humans.
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In domesticating the chicken, humans took advantage of this prolific reproduction of the jungle fowl when exposed to large amounts of food.
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The Phasianidae are a family of terrestrial birds consisting of quails, partridges, snowcocks, francolins, spurfowls, tragopans, monals, pheasants, peafowls and jungle fowls.
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The zoo is part of conservation breeding programs of the Central Zoo Authority for the brow antlered deer, and red jungle fowl.
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`CONTRAFREELOADING DECREASES WITH AGE AND SOCIAL ISOLATION IN RED JUNGLE FOWL AND WHITE LEGHORN LAYERS'By C . Lindqvist and P . Jensen
