Stock image of a wild turkey. Skeeze/Pixabay
It can trot up to 25 mph, take wing at more than 55 mph, hear an acorn drop in a windstorm, see predators 100 yards away, alert the forest to approaching danger with distinctive calls, and disappear in plain sight.
There were countless millions of Meleagris gallopavo, or wild turkeys, across what is now the United States in 1621 when the Wampanoag Tribe taught Plymouth Colony newcomers how to trap the native fowl in Massachusetts.
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