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The Incredible Success of Chicken Domestication

2022-06-16T14:58:35.514Z


STORY - It was from the forests of Thailand 3,500 years ago that the bird conquered the world, becoming the most common vertebrate on Earth.


Every Sunday on our plates, on the spit, casserole or fillet, chicken is a universal dish.

So much so that hens are the most numerous vertebrates in the world.

Opinions differ on their total number, but, according to the lowest estimates, there would be nearly 10 hens, chickens or roosters for a human being.

But where and when did man start raising these animals to eat them?

India and northern China have long disputed the honorary title of the birthplace of the chicken coop.

But according to a recent study published years ago in the

Proceedings of the American Academy of Sciences

(

PNAS

), it would in fact be in

Thailand that we would find the oldest proof of exploitation by man of the birds that have become our breeding roosters and hens.

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Source: lefigaro

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