Their story, personality and the details worth observing in person.
Meet Pina
Pina is an invented editorial name for this provisional profile. In the sample story, the animal curiously explores keeper-provided enrichment and often chooses the same quiet spot to rest. This individual profile does not describe a real specimen and will be replaced by Bioparco.
An individual, not just a species
The identity card of Pina
- Sex
- non specificato
- Origin
- The individual name, sex and story are invented provisional editorial content; scientific information refers to the species.
Verifiable facts and scientific language
Species profile
Domestic chicken
Gallus gallus domesticus
The domestic chicken is a social bird that scratches for food and forms group hierarchies.
- Class
- Aves
- Diet
- Omnivore
- IUCN status
- NE Not Evaluated Not Evaluated (NE) The species has not yet been assessed against IUCN criteria. IUCN Red List classification
- Natural habitat
- Farms, yards and managed rural habitats.
- Distribution
- Domestic worldwide; descended mainly from the Asian red junglefowl.
- Feeding
- Seeds, plants, insects and small invertebrates.
- Characteristics
- A social bird that scratches for food and forms group hierarchies.
One fact to take home
Observe, connect, remember
The term “pecking order” arose from observing chicken social hierarchy.