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lily-the-munchkin-cat · 7 months
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I haven’t stopped laughing at this
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lily-the-munchkin-cat · 11 months
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It's Lily's birthday today! She has turned 7 already. Time really flies.
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In Dutch the birds are named Kalkoen, after the Dutch name for an important harbor town. So not all Europeans called it (a form of) Turkey
Are all turkeys turkish? Do all thanksgiving birds come from the country of Turkey?
No, all turkeys are turkish. (And the country of Turkey was created later.)
The turkeys we usually see at Thanksgiving are descendants of two different breeds of turkey, each from the other side of the globe. (The birds we call “wild turkeys” come from South America.)
However, the “wild turkey” in most of the US is considered invasive — it’s a result of accidental (and now unintentional) releases of domestic turkeys (a bird native to the Mediterranean region) throughout the eastern US, and now it interbreeds with the local wild turkey populations.
The “domestic turkey” is the main bird we think of when we say “turkey.” We like it because it tastes good, and because its fat can be rendered into an edible oil, the only fat that is 100% edible. But it’s not native here, and many people in the USA have only been eating it for a couple of hundred years — it’s not that long ago. And, because it’s a hybrid of a wild and domestic species, it’s not even native to its progenitors’ native ranges.
And the wild turkeys in the US are, in most cases, not even domestic turkeys! Some of them are “bush turkeys” — not even domesticated turkeys! They descend from escaped, feral, or escaped domestic (i.e. the first) turkeys. (“Bush turkeys” have a broader “habitat” than domestic turkeys, and also tend to be darker colored and less white-eyed than domestic turkeys.) And others are feral birds from places that were never the main source of domesticated turkeys. (One thing to note: turkeys were a major food source in the Middle East in the time of the Ottoman Empire, in what is now Egypt. So there may be feral turkeys in the area, and that has not always been well known. There are even reports of feral turkeys in Egypt!)
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