My Life as a Turkey

[Botch]

I hit the bathroom after PBS Newshour tonight, when I returned to the living room this show was just starting. Odd premise to begin with, someone left this naturalist a basket of wild turkey eggs on his doorstep. He incubated them, watched them hatch, bonded with them as their "parent", and is now observing them growing up. They have an incredible hereditary sense of which insects are safe to eat, how to deal with species of snakes, etc.
I wouldn't have watched this from the show description, but it has sucked me in, really fascinating!

 

[Barney]

I just got through with that. It was very interesting. How he learned a bunch of turkey calls & how the wildlife would let him wonder around with his "children". Glad humans don't act like turkeys.....at the end...the "brothers"....

 

[Botch]

Glad humans don't act like turkeys.....at the end...the "brothers"....

I'm now watching CNN, Israel/Hamas, and I'm afraid we act like "brothers" more than we'd like... :|

His relationship with "Sweet Pea", the "runt", resonated with me. The two Corgi brothers I adopted years ago included the "beta" male (second-highest of the litter) and the "omega" (runt). Cassius, the runt, and I had a special relationship that became even more apparent when I watched a documentary on wolf packs, they showed the same relationship between the alpha and the omega. The last two years were not peaceful between the two dogs, Cassius showed a genuine fear of Brutus, and died of a doggie leukemia (I'm a firm believer that stress is a major cause of cancer) and Brutus died a couple months later (I believe of loneliness, ironically).
This adversarial relationship doesn't exist between a male and female, and if I ever get two more Corgis it'll be a mixed couple, for sure.

 

[topper]

Shows like that can turn out to be really good . . . I caught one a couple of days ago about ducks. -- :handgestures-thumbup:

Wild turkeys are totally different from those on the majority of dinner tables tomorrow.
There are about a dozen or so that live out in the woods here.
See a group of them like in the picture farly regularly in the field outside our back yard.

 

[Srvy]

My first Turkey at Farm near Braymer, Mo.

 

[Barney]

Srvy, that tank looks a little dry....

 

[Srvy]

Srvy, that tank looks a little dry....

Yep was a dry year that year.

Much of this property is in reserve (CRP).

Was a young buck then im a fat bastard now