Turkeys in Water
Posted on | July 27, 2002 | 11 Comments
Turkeys drown in the rain
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August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
Imposibile – How can turkeys drown in rain? Maybe if the water’s 1 m high !!!
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
hrrm – Well suposedly the birds are stupid and look up into the sky with their beaks open and gag on the water. However I bet this would seriously reduce the population of wild turkeys. Maybe it just a domestic turkey thing.
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
ok….. – how stupid could a animal get?! drownin in da rain! and did u noe teddy rossevelt wanted to make it da national bird????!!!!
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
Stupid turkeys – Anything can drown in the rain, if it looks straight up with its mouth open and breathes in the water.
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
Myth – The idea of a turkey drowning in the rain is a myth.
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
Not quite – lilfairy, it was Benjamin Franklin, not Roosevelt who advocated it being the national bird (I knew that I’m Israeli!)
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
well…. – there’s something you could do for thanksgiving: just spray it
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
u wish – turkeys kan’t drown in the rain…now that’s a myth. It’s too obvious
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
No duh?…… – Who would ever think Turkeys drown in the rain? What if a farm that recieves a lot of rain, and the farmer goes up to the chicken coop and sees his turkeys are dead? All because of rain. Poor turkeys. That’s another way. Get a turkey and drown it with a hose. Who cares?
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
Myth – It was thought that domesticated turkeys would stare up during a rain storm and drown them selvs. Actually it was the younger turkeys that would freeze to death in the cold rain because they didn’t have enought down feathers to keep them warm. So that is where the turkey drowning from rain myth comes from.
August 19th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
Yes, DEFINITELY myth – I guess the poster didn’t think this one through . . . at all. Think about it; how could a species survive so long when a single storm could wipe out a whole population? Animal traits come from natural selection, so how could such a behavoir of LOOKING STRAIT UP at storms AND opening your mouth EVER come into being? I don’t doubt the birds are stupid, but even so . . . . And domesticated turkeys are no worse. If anything, selective breeding would favor smarter turkeys (although size would be much more important), not dumber ones. It is true, however, that domesticated turkeys cannot fly like wild ones because of their immense size.