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Earth's land Mammals by weight (imgs.xkcd.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.