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Florida Bullfrog
Crowing
I’ve never been to Asia, but I’m told by people who have that Florida’s heat, humidity, and vegetation are very close to Vietnam’s. Our summer humidity is brutal because of the constant rain we get. Even for a multi-generational native like myself it gets rough to bear in the deep woods. There’s enough similarity between the American Southeast with the natural range if the red junglefowl that the Feds and State wildlife agencies made an effort to stock them in the SE for hunting during the middle of last century.Tropical ranges offer something many keepers don't have... deep, dense shade from complete forest canopies. They also get a lot of rain, providing moist, cool, bug rich soil. The temperature down there is going to be a lot different than out in the cultivated land and cities where people put out thermometers.
There are definitely parts of the RJF range that is more cool and temperate. And other parts that are probably nasty hot like an inland Florida summer. The answer may simply be that the birds are adaptable across a variety of climates, and that may be why they took to domestication so well.