Take a break: WTF Is Going On With These Creepy Turkeys Circling A Dead Cat?
Are they holding a funeral in reverence of the feline? A protest over the sheer numbers of domestic turkeys whose lives are lost to the cat food industry?
Some social media users speculated that the birds could actually be turkey vultures, but Pat Leonard from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology told The Huffington Post that the birds are “definitely turkeys.”
Andrew Farnsworth, a research associate with the lab, told HuffPost that he’s not an expert in wild turkeys specifically, but his suspicion is that the circling is “some sort of mobbing behavior.”
“It would be a reasonable explanation to this that, despite being dead, the cat represents a threat to the turkey that should be driven away,” he said in an email. “So they are mobbing it in the same sense that crows and many other birds mob owls.”
He noted that it was very unlikely that the turkeys plan to eat the cat.
Other bird experts concur.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/turkeys-circling-dead-cat-video-mystery_us_58b86bf2e4b01fc1bde6daf6?
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