Red Junglefowl

Red Junglefowl
セキショクヤケイ
Character Data
Romaji		Sekishokuyakei
Debut		Kemono Friends (2015 Game)
Animal Data
Scientific Name		Gallus gallus
Distribution		South and Southeast Asia
Diet		Omnivore
Avg. Lifespan		30 years
Read More		Red junglefowl
Conservation

Red Junglefowl

Festival

KF3

Kingdom

Nexon Game

Gallery

Red Junglefowl is a bird Friend that first appeared in the original Kemono Friends mobile game.

Appearance

Red Junglefowl's old design had long and brown straight hair with a red hair tuft, one gray fringe on the front representing the animal's beak, as well as two yellow fringes at the sides. She wore a brown closed jacket with two buttons, two pockets on chest level, sleeves and a red collar with a bow rolled up around her neck. She wore a short blue circular skirt with pressed-in ridges and a thin white stripe, navy blue thigh-high socks with white lace thigh-high boots. Like the animal she is based on, she had the wings and the tail of a red junglefowl.

Red Junglefowl's new design replaced the red tuft of hair with a red hair band resembling a cockscomb. Her hair colors are now closer to the real animal she is based on: red at the front with a yellow-red gradient at the back and a gray fringe tip resembling a beak. Her jacket is black, she has additional buttons and pockets, with checkered orange rolled up sleeves, collar and pockets. Her red neck bow is larger. Her skirt is blue with a lighter blue stripe and she wears black thigh-high socks. The white boots are now longer.

Series Appearances

Appearances In Kemono Friends Media

Media		Role
2015	Nexon Game	↪ Minor character, playable.
2018	Kemono Friends Festival	↪ Minor character, playable.
2019	Kemono Friends 3	↪ Minor character, playable.
2019	Kemono Friends 3: Planet Tours	↪ Photo illustration.
2022	Kemono Friends Kingdom	↪ Minor character, playable.

In Real Life

Gallus gallus (Red junglefowl)

The red junglefowl (scientific name Gallus gallus) is a tropical member of the family Phasianidae. It was first domesticated five thousand years ago in Asia. Since then it has spread around the world, and the domestic form is kept globally as a very productive food source of both meat and eggs.

The colourful male (about 80cm) has white ear patches and a white puff at the base of his tail. The drab female (about 40cm) has dull brown streaky plumage. She also has white ear patches and lacks a comb or wattles on her head. Their feet are lead-grey.

These birds can fly quite a distance, for example to cross rivers, and quite high, spiralling upwards to the tree tops. In fact, they roost in trees. They prefer forest edges, but elsewhere, they are found in habitats ranging from mangroves to high mountain passes.

The red junglefowl is an herbivore and insectivore. Red junglefowls eat corn, soybean, worms, grass, and different kinds of grains found on the ground. They cannot detect sweet tastes. They can detect salt, but most red junglefowl do not like it.

Red junglefowl regularly bathe in dust to keep just the right balance in their plumage. The dust absorbs extra oil and subsequently falls off. The red junglefowl has a very distinctive social system involving a pecking order, with one dominating all, and one submitting to all. There is one pecking order for female and one for male.

The red junglefowl is listed as 'Endangered' in the Red List of threatened animals of Singapore. They are not only affected by habitat loss but also by poaching and interbreeding with domesticated chickens.

Trivia

Gallus gallus (Red junglefowl)

• Gallus gallus can live up to ten years. The molting process, taking the old feathers and putting new ones on, for an adult, takes about three to four months every year. The memory of the red junglefowl is very short.
• It is said that they were first domesticated for cockfighting, later for religious ceremonies and only much later as food.

References

1. Wild Singapore: Red Junglefowl

2. Gallus gallus, Animal Diversity Web.