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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
It's funny you mention that. They have an animal expert from the Miami Zoo on the Dan Le Batard Show every week and he takes callers. Someone called about this, and he talked about how intelligent turkeys were, and said this was likely predator inspection, similar to what antelopes/gazelle will do on the African plains.
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I don't have a dog in the fight, but turkeys are stupid. Grandpa always told me he had some turkeys when he was younger and they always had to lock them in the coup if it was going to rain because they'd stare up at the lightning and drown...
Mom and Dad had some turkeys move in at the farm after I went to college and they were pretty stupid. There was nothing coordinated about predator identification or evasion. It was pretty much "Panic and run" (Sorry. My daughter watches Lion Guard.)
I really enjoy the Ron McGill segment, and he may very well be correct, but in my experience, turkeys are epic dumb.