domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus)

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Subject:	domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus)
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Gallus sonneratii - 1879 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBA01 IZ17000097.jpg

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domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus)

Gallus sonneratii
Date 1879
Source/Photographer L'Acclimatation : journal des éleveurs, p. 298
Old Latin name Gallus sonneratii
New Latin name Gallus gallus domesticus
Common name Nederlands: Kip
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gallus_sonneratii_-_1879_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ17000097.tif

The domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a type of domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the red junglefowl. It is one of the most common and widespread domestic animals. Humans keep chickens primarily as a source of food, consuming both their meat and their eggs.

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