Guinea hen

Guinea hen department
Guinea hen Numida meleagris
Maintenance situation evaluation
LEAST CONCERN (IUCN Red List Ver.3.1 (2001))
Classification
界 : Animal kingdom Animalia The gate : Chordate gate Chordata Amon : Vertebrate Amon Vertebrata Rope : Bird rope Aves Eyes : Galliformes Galliformes Course : Guinea hen department Numididae The genus : Guinea hen genus Numida Linnaeus, 1766 Kind : Guinea hen N. meleagris
Scientific name
Numida meleagris (Linnaeus, 1758)
Japanese name
Guinea hen
Fame
Helmeted guineafowl
Figure of habitation

Numida meleagris

The birds that the Guinea hens (a Guinea fowl, a Guinea hen British: Guinea fowl, a scientific name: Numida meleagris) are classified in the Galliformes Guinea hen department Guinea hen genus. I form the Guinea hen genus only of this seed. The generic name comes from ancient kingdom Numidia of the North Africa. The specific epithet comes from hero Meleagros of the Greek myth in Greek to mean a Guinea hen.

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Distribution

Angola、Yemen、Uganda、Ethiopia、Eritrea、Ghana、Gabon、Cameroon、Gambia、Guiana、Guinea-Bissau、Kenya、Cote d'Ivoire、The Republic of Congo、The Democratic Republic of Congo、Zambia、Sierra Leone、Zimbabwe、Sudan、Swaziland、Equatorial Guinea、Senegal、Somalia、Tanzania、Chad、The Central African Republic、Togo、Nigeria、Namibia、Niger、Benin、Botswana、Burkina Faso、BurundiMalawi、The Republic of Mali、The Republic of South Africa、Mozambique、Morocco、Liberia、Rwanda、Lesotho

Form

53cm in total length. The body is covered to a black feather, and a white spot becomes available.

The head does not have the feather, and there is a projection of the bony-hardness covered in quality of keratin. In addition, there are red and a blue wattle in the pharynx. The sex resembles closely, but a wattle and the projection of the head have a bigger male.

As for the color of a wing of the domesticated Guinea hen, white, brown, gray vary.

Habits

I inhabit a grassy plain or the forest which opened out. It is 地表棲, but sleeps on a tree except a female brooding by night. I formed a group and lived, and the large-scale group of 2,000 or more has been confirmed. It becomes one line of side and goes 採食 and may take the form keeping away from a natural enemy around a fledgling. When it is the breeding season, the male has the territory, and the group breaks up. I put up a caution sound when I feel danger and escape on the run, but can fly if it is a short distance. As for the Japanese name, "ポルポラート" which is the name that was used when I was brought in in the Edo era by a Dutchman is thought about with an origin.

The eating habit eats Insecta, class arthropoda, Crustacea, fruit, a seed by a sloppy meal.

The breeding form is oviparous and I make the hideout where I dig the ground and spread dead leaves or grass and lay an egg. When it is the breeding season, males run after it and fight. Only a female broods it, and the male copulates with a female according to the meantime. The sex performs the care of the young bird.

with the human being of relationships

It may be said that it is edible and may be bred as poultry any place other than the habitat. In Guineafowl (in the case of will, the female of "a Guinean bird or the chicken" "Guineahen" of the will of "the Guinean noodles bird") which is the generic name of the constitution class of the Guinea hen department, this kind that is the progenitor of poultry comes from that the western part (Gulf of Guinea) is from Africa. I am bred in France and the West Indies and am often used with French food. It is straight and is known as good flavor for the resistance to the teeth similar to the wild bird.

The Guinea hen as poultry is nervous, and there is the part which is poor at cold, and is particular about handling, but, on the other hand, I am sick and am very strong, and there is the advantage to be brought up soundly even if I do not use the medicine [¹].

Breeding situation in Japan

A research organization, the farming family who tries breeding in Japan exists several spots including the ranch of Wakayama and Iwate. However, I need a climate of the tropical zone-like summer for breeding, and a site wide at present is it in characteristics such as the need from weak things in a unique cry and shock. In addition, it is limited to barbecued chickens, and the development of the repertory does not advance and does not come to generally spread for a dish for Japanese for the moment although I often come into the limelight as material of the venture business.

Wakayama agriculture and forestry fisheries United Engineering Center livestock experimental station, the poultry farming research institute is the livestock experimental station which I breed it and study of the only Guinea hen in the whole country.

Image e

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  A pair and young bird

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  The head of the domestic animal class

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  Domestic animal class

Footnote

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1. ^ "A Guinea fowl on a dining table the specialized farm "Ishiguro farm" of the Guinea fowl". Ishiguro farm Ltd. February 8, 2015 reading.

References

• "A primary color wide illustrated book 4 bird," it is page 102 for Gakken, 1,984 years.
• "Animal size all sorts of subject 7 birds I," it is 148-151, page 154 for Heibonsha Publishers Ltd., 1,986 years.
• "An illustrated book NEO bird of Shogakukan," it is page 127 for Shogakukan, 2,002 years.

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Outside link

• 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
  • BirdLife International 2004. Numida meleagris. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

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