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Though domestic turkeys are considered flightless, wild turkeys can and do fly for short distances. Turkeys are best adapted for walking and foraging; they do not fly as a normal means of travel. When faced with a perceived danger, wild turkeys can fly up to a quarter mile. Turkeys may also make short flights to assist roosting in a tree. [48]
A “rafter” or “flock” is the name for a group of turkeys. Very young turkeys are called “poults,” young females are “jakes” and young females are “jennies.” Show comments
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Turkey is a large country with many geographic and climatic regions and a great diversity of plants and animals, each suited to its own particular habitat. About 1,500 species of vertebrates and 19,000 species of invertebrates have been recorded in the country.
Galliformes / ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ f ɔːr m iː z / is an order of heavy-bodied ground-feeding birds that includes turkeys, chickens, quail, and other landfowl.Gallinaceous birds, as they are called, are important in their ecosystems as seed dispersers and predators, and are often reared by humans for their meat and eggs, or hunted as game birds.
Most turkeys today grow dangerously fast and large, with breasts so big they can’t copulate and may have trouble walking or breathing. Today's turkeys are monstrous super birds, more than twice ...
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 ...
You would think a turkey is a turkey and they should have the same ability. However, since domestic turkeys are raised on farms they have a very different lifestyle and they do not fly .