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Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?

This is among the questions researchers are investigating in an effort to discover how the wild Red Jungle Fowl of India eventually became the tame, egg-laying chicken so familiar today. Linda Aldrich, long-time Audubon member and biologist, will talk about the domestication of chickens, pigeons, turkeys and other birds (with some references to more thoroughly studied animals) to see what is known or surmised about how and when close human/animal associations came about.

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