Helmeted Guineafowl in close-up, Kruger National Park, South Africa.

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Guineafowl in close-up. In South Africa they are locally named "Police" because they are normally found in the road! Guineafowl have a long history of domestication, mainly involving the Helmeted Guineafowl. The young are called "keets" and are very small at birth. The species has a largely unfeathered head and neck, background body plumage is largely black, adorned with tear-drop sized white spots. The naked head and neck is thought to be an adaptation for cooling relatively warm arterial blood flowing upwards to the brain from the heart.

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Size: 3720px × 2352px
Location: Kruger National Park (in a road) South Africa
Photo credit: © David Cantrille / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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