Truly our national animal
People joke about how Benjamin Franklin wanted it to be the turkey.
He wasn’t talking about the domesticated bird we normally eat at Thanksgiving.
He was talking about one of these dinosaurs:
And god help you if you get between a tom and one of his mates. Here’s a wild turkey spur:
Do be fair.
It’s hard to take them seriously when you’re watching them jump for crab apples they can’t quite reach.
Not that turkeys aren’t all around a better bird than the carrion scavenger.
Wild turkeys are so different than regular ones.
We should call them something different.
Maybe we could call them Türkies so we know the difference.
There’s always Wild Turkey. I hear it will fuck you up!
That is one horny devil
And it wasn’t even fresh food that he caught himself, it was roadkill. Apropos.
An American knows better than to pass up free food 💪
* RFK enters the chat *
“Stop making fun of my bird!!”
“They will feed on what is most available, and requiring the least amount of energy to acquire it.”
Truly my spirit animal
Damn it, I came here to make pretty much the same comment.
Lets go find a dead raccoon, bro.
screeches in approval
Maybe you are also this commenters spirit animal. Now you have found each other eat them like your little raccoon.
Well it was Missouri after all. The raccoon was likely breaded and deep fried before the eagle ate it.
Majestic creatures.
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