Fascinating animals. I've raised domestic turkeys and we also have massive herds (flocks?) of wild turkeys here. It's amazing how much we have changed them through domestication, one of our birds made it to 50 pounds! When we finally ate him we had to cut them in half to even fit in the oven lol. They're very sweet but also not super bright. Very often the wild ones will just congregate in the road and you have to get out and chase them away because they don't seem to recognize cars as a threat. Oh also their facial snoods on the males are erectile tissue, so when they get worked up they can essentially get a face boner, which is freaky to see!
I wonder if the slavic name for Turkeys is derived from the use of 'Indian' for things native to the Americans. I also find it wild that this bird that is so well known has so little known about it in terms of it's origin and relations.
On the topic of languages, in Darginian language (one of the many languages in Dagestan, which is a republic within Russia on the west coast of Caspian Sea) turkey is called "Кlyдklyд" ("cood-cood", but with a more wide guttural "k" sound), which is an example of onomatopoeia. I don't really know why I brought that up, thought it would be cool, maybe flexing the only word I learned myself from my native language
The fact that they came from India is most likely because the native Americans were called "Indians" and this caused confusion in the Ottomans, so they may have thought that they really came from India. If a traveler at the time said that they brought this bird from the Indians, based on what he heard from the Europeans, and if he translated the word "Indian" as "Hindistan", introducing it to the Turks, then the people at that time thought that it came from India and called it "Hindi".
I wouldn’t say the wild turkeys here in the suburbs “flee”. They casually walk away while giving you a death glare. They practically refuse to fly, but they can run quite fast if needed. The main reason they fly is to roost in trees at night, which most people here in the states don’t even realize. It’s pretty funny to see, they look very awkward in trees because of their size but they do it every night! Thanksgiving wasn’t started by the pilgrims, but it was originally a very niche Christian thing that didn’t gain national recognition until after the civil war.
It's funny that both Meleagris and Pavo (true peacocks) have two species each, the more known species of either being sexually dimorphic, while the other species is less so. Finding more species pairs like this is amusing to me
Your video is incorrect, there is no such thing as a "wild turkey", "black turkey" or "common turkey" are the correct names for species in the genus Meleagris Turkeys constitute the subfamily Meleagridinae with three extant species under two genera: the United States Turkey (Meleagris silvestris), the Mexican Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo (cladistically including the Domestic Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo domestica))), and the Ocellated Turkey (Agriocharis ocellata) Turkeys (subfamily Meleagridinae) are one of the three extant subfamilies of the broader family Tetraonidae, where they are grouped with the grouse (subfamily Tetraoninae) and the koklasses (genus Pucrasia) of the monotypic subfamily Pucrasiinae
"three extant species under two genera: the United States Turkey (Meleagris silvestris), the Mexican Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo (cladistically including the Domestic Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo domestica))), and the Ocellated Turkey (Agriocharis ocellata)" What are you basing this statement on?
@, similar to there being three extant species of peafowl under two genera: the Blue Peafowl (Pavo cristatus), the Green Peafowl (Pavo muticus), and the Congo Peafowl (Afropavo congensis), there are now thought to be three extant species of turkey under two genera: the United States Turkey (Meleagris silvestris), the Mexican Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo (cladistically including the Domestic Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo domestica))), and the Ocellated Turkey (Agriocharis ocellata) All the black turkey subspecies in the United States are now lumped together into a separate species from the mexican turkey Turkeys constitute the subfamily Meleagridinae with three extant species under two genera, they were once a diverse subfamily, but only two turkey genera still exist today while other genera of turkeys like Proagriocharis and Rhegminornis are extinct
@@OutofPlaceZoologist, the treatment of black turkeys in the United States as a separate polytypic species from black turkeys in Mexico is also similar to the treatment of ring-necked pheasants (Phasianus torquatus) and black-breasted pheasants (Phasianus elegans) as separate species from black-necked pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) with the black-breasted pheasant being the most basal species and the ring-necked pheasant being more closely related to the green pheasant (Phasianus versicolor).
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Bowling ball screen when you get a turkey
Fascinating animals. I've raised domestic turkeys and we also have massive herds (flocks?) of wild turkeys here. It's amazing how much we have changed them through domestication, one of our birds made it to 50 pounds! When we finally ate him we had to cut them in half to even fit in the oven lol. They're very sweet but also not super bright. Very often the wild ones will just congregate in the road and you have to get out and chase them away because they don't seem to recognize cars as a threat.
Oh also their facial snoods on the males are erectile tissue, so when they get worked up they can essentially get a face boner, which is freaky to see!
So you are saying that turkeys are dxxkheads. Nice!
I wonder if the slavic name for Turkeys is derived from the use of 'Indian' for things native to the Americans.
I also find it wild that this bird that is so well known has so little known about it in terms of it's origin and relations.
I find your accent and wording very relaxing, you're very talented and knowledgeable :D
On the topic of languages, in Darginian language (one of the many languages in Dagestan, which is a republic within Russia on the west coast of Caspian Sea) turkey is called "Кlyдklyд" ("cood-cood", but with a more wide guttural "k" sound), which is an example of onomatopoeia.
I don't really know why I brought that up, thought it would be cool, maybe flexing the only word I learned myself from my native language
Actually calling a Turkey a chicken peacock makes so much sense
I like to call peacocks "fancy turkeys" 😅
Such beautiful and Majestic borbs. I've refuse to eat them for a long time.
The fact that they came from India is most likely because the native Americans were called "Indians" and this caused confusion in the Ottomans, so they may have thought that they really came from India. If a traveler at the time said that they brought this bird from the Indians, based on what he heard from the Europeans, and if he translated the word "Indian" as "Hindistan", introducing it to the Turks, then the people at that time thought that it came from India and called it "Hindi".
I wouldn’t say the wild turkeys here in the suburbs “flee”. They casually walk away while giving you a death glare. They practically refuse to fly, but they can run quite fast if needed. The main reason they fly is to roost in trees at night, which most people here in the states don’t even realize. It’s pretty funny to see, they look very awkward in trees because of their size but they do it every night! Thanksgiving wasn’t started by the pilgrims, but it was originally a very niche Christian thing that didn’t gain national recognition until after the civil war.
It's funny that both Meleagris and Pavo (true peacocks) have two species each, the more known species of either being sexually dimorphic, while the other species is less so. Finding more species pairs like this is amusing to me
Nice.
Could you do a video about that one meme about a bird “re-evolving” back into existence?
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Mr Deer man, you planning on making a discord server for your community?
Your video is incorrect, there is no such thing as a "wild turkey", "black turkey" or "common turkey" are the correct names for species in the genus Meleagris
Turkeys constitute the subfamily Meleagridinae with three extant species under two genera: the United States Turkey (Meleagris silvestris), the Mexican Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo (cladistically including the Domestic Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo domestica))), and the Ocellated Turkey (Agriocharis ocellata)
Turkeys (subfamily Meleagridinae) are one of the three extant subfamilies of the broader family Tetraonidae, where they are grouped with the grouse (subfamily Tetraoninae) and the koklasses (genus Pucrasia) of the monotypic subfamily Pucrasiinae
"three extant species under two genera: the United States Turkey (Meleagris silvestris), the Mexican Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo (cladistically including the Domestic Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo domestica))), and the Ocellated Turkey (Agriocharis ocellata)"
What are you basing this statement on?
@, similar to there being three extant species of peafowl under two genera: the Blue Peafowl (Pavo cristatus), the Green Peafowl (Pavo muticus), and the Congo Peafowl (Afropavo congensis), there are now thought to be three extant species of turkey under two genera: the United States Turkey (Meleagris silvestris), the Mexican Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo (cladistically including the Domestic Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo domestica))), and the Ocellated Turkey (Agriocharis ocellata)
All the black turkey subspecies in the United States are now lumped together into a separate species from the mexican turkey
Turkeys constitute the subfamily Meleagridinae with three extant species under two genera, they were once a diverse subfamily, but only two turkey genera still exist today while other genera of turkeys like Proagriocharis and Rhegminornis are extinct
@@indyreno2933 Thought by who and when?
@@OutofPlaceZoologist, the treatment of black turkeys in the United States as a separate polytypic species from black turkeys in Mexico is also similar to the treatment of ring-necked pheasants (Phasianus torquatus) and black-breasted pheasants (Phasianus elegans) as separate species from black-necked pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) with the black-breasted pheasant being the most basal species and the ring-necked pheasant being more closely related to the green pheasant (Phasianus versicolor).
@@indyreno2933 Oh ok i guess i'm just talking to an AI bot or something