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Female turkeys, called hens, lay about 10 to 12 eggs at a rate of about one per day for two weeks or so. The eggs incubate for only about 28 days before they hatch and little turkeys emerge.
the rose comb, as seen in the Hamburg and Wyandotte, broad and fairly fast, covered with small pointed protuberances, with a long backwards-facing spike to the rear. the strawberry or walnut comb, as seen in the Malay, which roughly resembles half a strawberry or walnut. [2]: 503 In hens, the comb is usually smaller and neater than in the cock.
An aggregation of male birds gathered to engage in competitive displays (known as lekking) that may entice visiting females that are assessing prospective partners for copulation. [273] These males are usually in sight of each other, but when they are only in earshot, it is called a dispersed lek or an exploded lek .
Turkey Temporal range: 23–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Early Miocene – Recent A male wild turkey strutting Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Galliformes Family: Phasianidae Subfamily: Phasianinae Tribe: Tetraonini Genus: Meleagris Linnaeus, 1758 Type species Meleagris gallopavo (wild turkey) Linnaeus, 1758 Species M ...
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The hemipenis is the intromittent organ of Squamata, [4] which is the second largest order of vertebrates with over 9,000 species distributed around the world. They differ from the intromittent organs of most other amniotes such as mammals, archosaurs and turtles that have a single genital tubercle, as squamates have the paired genitalia remaining separate. [5]
The flap of skin hanging over a turkey’s bill is called a snood It can change color, size, and shape based on the turkey’s mood and activities, such as when they’re courting. 6.
The domestic turkey (Meleagris gallopavo domesticus) is a large fowl, one of the two species in the genus Meleagris and the same species as the wild turkey.Although turkey domestication was thought to have occurred in central Mesoamerica at least 2,000 years ago, [1] recent research suggests a possible second domestication event in the area that is now the southwestern United States between ...