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Earth's land Mammals by weight
(imgs.xkcd.com)
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It's specifically a visualization of land mammals, so chickens wouldn't appear, being birds.
Fair enough, but in a way chickens kinda should be on there anyways. They can't exactly fly very far, spend like 98% of their life on the ground, and humans breed them for food.
I think the argument was chickens not being mammals.
Ah, indeed. Still seems they should have been a bit more broad than restricting the data to land mammals, more like humans vs food.
Oh well, it is what it is.
They don't spend 98% of their life on the ground in the wild. They sleep in trees, just like turkeys and peacocks.
90%+ chickens are bred for food, I don't think there's all that many truly wild chickens out there anymore.
There are probably some somewhere, but yeah not many. However the ones that are bred for food typically weigh more.
Hell, if you let a meat chicken grow beyond its sell-by date, there's a good chance it will develop so much muscle mass it cannot stand up anymore, and it will rot to death on the spot.
I'm pretty sure they were domesticated from something (a South Asian jungle fowl, I believe) to the extent that they are no longer even the same species. So any "wild" chickens would just be feral escapees.