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12 Facts About Turkeys!
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Guy Adopts a Turkey
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πŸ¦ƒ1. Turkeys are highly intelligent and sensitive birds.

Owing to their intelligence, turkeys can remember precise details of an area even after a year of absence. Turkeys also have incredible emotional intelligence. They express empathy for other birds, form lasting social bonds, display affection, and even purr when they feel content and comforted.

πŸ¦ƒ2. You can tell a turkey’s mood by looking at them.

The ability to change color is not unique to chameleons and octopiβ€”turkeys literally show their true colors, too. The skin on a turkey’s head (the snood) and the skin under their throat (the wattle) can change between shades of red, white, and blue depending on how stressed, agitated, calm, or excited they are.

πŸ¦ƒ3. Individual turkeys have a unique voice and a wide range of vocalizations.

If you think all turkeys sound the same, science (and the turkeys) beg to differ. Turkeys are able to identify individuals by their voice which is how they recognize one another. Apparently, not all gobbles sound the same in turkey talk. Turkeys have elaborate vocal skills and can exhibit over 20 different vocalizations. Each has a distinct meaning ranging from a cordial greeting to a warning of danger.

πŸ¦ƒ4. Turkeys have superpowers.

Turkeys have keen hearing even though they lack external ears. Instead, they have small holes behind their eyes and can accurately locate sounds up to about a mile away. The placement of their eyes enables a 270-degree field of vision compared to humans’ 180 degrees. In addition, turkeys have superior color vision and can see UV light!

πŸ¦ƒ5. Benjamin Franklin thought turkeys were more majestic than eagles.

If Ben Franklin had his way, America’s national bird might be the turkey. In a letter he wrote to his daughter in 1784, Franklin praised the turkey as β€œa much more respectable bird” and β€œa true original native of America.” On the contrary, he wrote that the eagle was β€œa bird of bad moral character,” β€œdoes not get his living honestly,” and is β€œtoo lazy to fish for himself.”

πŸ¦ƒ6. Turkeys were revered in ancient Mexican cultures.

In 300 B.C....Mayan religious imagery depicts turkeys as representations of God, and they worshiped as symbols of power and prestige.

πŸ¦ƒ7. Turkeys swallow stones to aid digestion.

Anyone who has seen Moana may recall her sidekick, Hei Hei, attempting to eat a large stone. While the writers exaggerated the characteristic for comedic effect, there’s actually some truth to it. Turkeys don’t have teeth, so they swallow small stones to help grind up food in their first stomachβ€”the gizzard. Bonus fact: turkeys have two stomachs.

πŸ¦ƒ8. The American turkey is named after the country Turkey due to a case of mistaken identity.

An African bird called the guinea fowl (which resembles the American turkey) was brought to Europe through Turkish lands by the Portuguese. Europeans called these birds β€˜turkish chicken’ or β€˜turkey ----.’ When Europeans saw a similar-looking bird in North America, they thought it was the same fowl and the name turkey ----β€”later shortened to turkeyβ€”remained.

πŸ¦ƒ9. Wild turkeys were at the brink of extinction.

In the early 1900s, the population of wild turkeys hit a record low of nearly 30,000 birds as a result of pervasive hunting. Fortunately, effective restoration programs were introduced and the populations recovered. If only all turkeys were allowed to run wild.

πŸ¦ƒ10. Wild turkeys can fly short distances but most domesticated turkeys cannot.

Descendants of the wild turkey have been bred into the large, domesticated birds that we see today in order to increase meat yield for human consumption. This unnaturally large size is not conducive for flight. Trim turkeys left to roam and forage on their own are lighter which allows them to take to the airβ€”if only for less than 100 yards.

πŸ¦ƒ11. Male turkeys put up an elaborate spectacle to attract a mate.

When it comes to attracting a female, male turkeys put on quite a show! Often called Toms or Gobblers, male turkeys puff up their bodies and spread their tail feathers in a grand display, simultaneously strutting to the sound of their own grunts and gobbles. The more outlandish the presentation, the more irresistible they seem!

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Turkeys Purr When They're Hugged
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About Turkopia Eggs

Autumn captured in the form of an visually stunning egg. Well-crafted replicas of Turkopia eggs are commonly placed as the centerpiece during holiday meals, but Arkians looking to really impress their guests will opt to use the genuine article instead.

About the Turkopia Creature

Firmly planted upon the rear end of this turkey is a wicker cornucopia that had been meticulously crafted by its mother prior to hatching. There is a varying degree of quality depending upon the material used, but this cornucopia is durable enough to protect the Turkopia from being blindsided by predators.

Although the species is seen to represent a bountiful harvest, it makes for a poor meal compared to Perukeys or Gobblers since Turkopia meat is very tough and has a somewhat unpleasant aftertaste that is difficult to mask with seasoning.