Human Curator
Mid Anthropocene
Gallus Domesticus
England
0002017 CE
As the dominant land animal of the Early Anthropocene, domesticated chickens became a great petri dish allowing avian influenzas to mutate and infect their human carers. Every school child knows about the levels of suffering experienced during the great plagues of the Coronocene, so will not be repeated here. Humans knew they needed to vigilant about the existential threats of global pandemics, but their attention flitted to less worthy matters, which was considered ethical at the time.
Transferred to IMoB on the termination of UCL Grant Museum of Zoology (LDUCZ-Y1751).
IMoB 33278.
Curator
complex creature, far future
Post-Anthropocene
Gallus Domesticus
England
0002017 CE
Once the most common domestic animal on Earth, the chicken is now extinct. They were farmed in factory prisons ruled by an infamous pecking order, designed to maximize production and minimise flock wellness. Addicted to unnatural growth-booster food and prone to obesity, the species became totally dependent on their human jailors. Once humans died out they were unable to survive on their own.
Transferred to IMoB on the termination of UCL Grant Museum of Zoology (LDUCZ-Y1751).
IMoB 33278.
Curator
complex creature, far future
Post-Anthropocene
Chicken
England
Anthropocene
Once one of the most common domestic animals, with 69 billion reared annually for food production, the chicken is now extinct. Having been raised and confined in factory farms designed to maximize production while minimising costs, the species underwent physical alteration into larger birds unable to walk. Together with a reliance on unnatural growth-performance feed, this led to their inability to survive without intervention once humans were wiped out. Transferred to IMoB on the termination of the UCL Grant Museum (LDUCZ-Y1751)