Animal of the Day: Turkey

I know these have become sparse because my schedule is bountiful but today I have time and this break I have had the desire to write (and I shall put more of that toward AP Lit and Journalism and Scholarships) but for now, Turkeys!

Today's domesticated turkeys are descendant of the wild turkeys of Mexico. Turkey's got their name, despite being native to the Americas, because Spain imported domesticated to Great Britain from Turkey and surrounding countries.

Adult males are called Toms and Gobblers. Teenage turkey males are called Jakes.

When a male turkey gets excited his wattle and snood fill with blood and turn red and his face becomes blue, unless he is ready to fight, then his whole face turns red. The snood is the eloquent flap of skin that hangs overs  a male turkey's beak.

Turkeys harbor from 5000 to 6000 feathers. I bet you thought I was going to write germs or parasites or something more gross than feathers.

Males and some females have small beards that grow from their breast.

Wild turkeys are agile flyers. A turkey gobble can be heard a mile away