Editing Domestication (section)

=== Birds ===

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|footer=The [[chicken]] was domesticated from the red junglefowl, apparently for [[cockfighting]], some 7,000 years ago.<ref name="Lawler Adler 2012"/>
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|caption1=Cockfight in [[Tamil Nadu]], 2011
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|caption2=[[Red junglefowl]] of Southeast Asia 
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Domesticated birds principally mean [[poultry]], raised for meat and eggs:<ref name="AH">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Poultry |encyclopedia=The American Heritage: Dictionary of the English Language |edition=4th |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company |date=2009 |url=http://www.thefreedictionary.com/poultry}}</ref> some [[Galliformes]] ([[chicken]], [[turkey (bird)|turkey]], [[guineafowl]]) and [[Anseriformes]] (waterfowl: [[duck]]s, [[goose|geese]], and [[swan]]s). Also widely domesticated are [[cagebirds]] such as [[songbirds]] and [[parrots]]; these are kept both for pleasure and for use in research.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://asabirds.org/history/ |title=Our History |publisher=Avicultural Society of America |access-date=3 December 2023}}</ref>
The [[domestic pigeon]] has been used both for food and as a means of communication between far-flung places through the exploitation of the pigeon's homing instinct; research suggests it was domesticated as early as 10,000 years ago.<ref name="Blechman">{{cite book |last=Blechman |first=Andrew |title=Pigeons – The fascinating saga of the world's most revered and reviled bird |publisher=University of Queensland Press |date=2007 |url=http://andrewblechman.com/pigeons/learn_more.html |isbn=9780702236419}}</ref> Chicken fossils in China have been dated to 7,400 years ago. The chicken's wild ancestor is ''[[Gallus gallus]]'', the red junglefowl of Southeast Asia. The species appears to have been kept initially for [[cockfighting]] rather than for food.<ref name="Lawler Adler 2012">{{cite journal |last1=Lawler |first1=Andrew |last2=Adler |first2=Jerry |title=How the Chicken Conquered the World |url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-chicken-conquered-the-world-87583657/ |journal=[[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian Magazine]] |issue=June 2012 |date=June 2012}}</ref>