Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a large and round short-winged bird, domesticated from the red junglefowl of Southeast Asia around 8,000 years ago. Most chickens are raised for food, providing meat and eggs ; others are kept as pets [ 1 ] or for cockfighting .
The greater prairie-chicken was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Tetrao cupido. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Linnaeus based his account on the "Le Cocq de bois d'Amerique" that had been described and illustrated by the English naturalist Mark Catesby in his ...
The word binomial is composed of two elements: bi-(Latin prefix meaning 'two') and nomial (the adjective form of nomen, Latin for 'name').In Medieval Latin, the related word binomium was used to signify one term in a binomial expression in mathematics. [7]
Illustration of thirty-nine varieties of chicken (and one Guinea Fowl) . There are hundreds of chicken breeds in existence. [1] Domesticated for thousands of years, distinguishable breeds of chicken have been present since the combined factors of geographical isolation and selection for desired characteristics created regional types with distinct physical and behavioral traits passed on to ...
The red junglefowl was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Phasianus gallus. [7] Linnaeus specified the type locality as "India orientali" but this has been restricted to the island of Pulo Condor Côn Đảo off the coast of Vietnam. [8]
The binomial name often reflects limited knowledge or hearsay about a species at the time it was named. For instance Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee, and Troglodytes troglodytes, the wren, are not necessarily cave-dwellers. Sometimes a genus name or specific descriptor is simply the Latin or Greek name for the animal (e.g. Canis is Latin for ...
Certified chicken lady (and owner of Cluckingham Palace in Texas), says, "I'm drawn to character names like Moira Rose and Cruella because it's fun to assign those wild personalities to a chicken."
It is the type species, and most thoroughly studied member of its genus. Its name means "cellulose-breaker under hot conditions", "breaking up polysaccharides". [119] Chilobrachys jonitriantisvansickleae Nanayakkara, Sumanapala & Kirk, 2019 - family Theraphosidae. This tarantula from Sri Lanka has the longest binomial name of any spider. [120]