• over_clox@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Fair enough, but in a way chickens kinda should be on there anyways. They can’t exactly fly very far, spend like 98% of their life on the ground, and humans breed them for food.

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        1 year ago

        Ah, indeed. Still seems they should have been a bit more broad than restricting the data to land mammals, more like humans vs food.

        Oh well, it is what it is.

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      1 year ago

      They don’t spend 98% of their life on the ground in the wild. They sleep in trees, just like turkeys and peacocks.

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        90%+ chickens are bred for food, I don’t think there’s all that many truly wild chickens out there anymore.

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          There are probably some somewhere, but yeah not many. However the ones that are bred for food typically weigh more.

          Hell, if you let a meat chicken grow beyond its sell-by date, there’s a good chance it will develop so much muscle mass it cannot stand up anymore, and it will rot to death on the spot.

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          I’m pretty sure they were domesticated from something (a South Asian jungle fowl, I believe) to the extent that they are no longer even the same species. So any “wild” chickens would just be feral escapees.