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The chicken we all know and love to eat (Gallus gallus) is a type of domesticated fowl. It is believed to have descended from the wild Indian and south-east Asian Red Junglefowl.
The chicken is one of the most common and wide-spread domestic animals on our planet. There were more than 24 billion in 2003.
There are more chickens in the world than any other bird. Humans keep chickens primarily as a source of food, from both their meat and their eggs.
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