The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
The very first thing we notice about this large member of the Galliformes is that there is a wild version and a domestic version, and although the two are rather different, they are both given the same species name, Meleagris gallopavo. et al 2001. Which would be weird. Prior to this discovery, the earliest evidence of M. 11(4):643–57.
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