I think so.
Their numbers were dwindling due to predators and human habitation. They don't have wings so they cant fly. You'd figure cats in the city enjoy bird meals very often. Not a very biological gift. Pheasants hide in bushes and lay eggs. They eat lizards and perhaps can even defeat the snake. How did they survive their environment before finding us, I don't know. But now they are bred as food species.
Their numbers were dwindling due to predators and human habitation. They don't have wings so they cant fly. You'd figure cats in the city enjoy bird meals very often. Not a very biological gift. Pheasants hide in bushes and lay eggs. They eat lizards and perhaps can even defeat the snake. How did they survive their environment before finding us, I don't know. But now they are bred as food species.
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This question draws for a speculative answer; there's no way we could know for certain. Certainly our assistance in their proliferation didn't hurt their numbers, but I would guess that the chickens would not have been extinct. Again, there is no real way to know though.
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Red junglefowl, effectively wild chickens, exist today. Domesticated chickens would be hard pressed to exist in the wild.
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Likely. Human habitation and predators.
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? no?
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Likely.