News just in : Turkeys are even weird than their gobble and dangly neck - thingys suggest .
Yesterday , Twitter user@TheReal_JDavisfrom Massachusetts spot a unknown muckle of a XII bomb marching in a perfect circle around a stagnant cat .
Heshared the videoof this ornithological nightmare along with the well - executed caption : “ These Meleagris gallopavo seek to give this CT its tenth sprightliness . ” People are understandably confused and divert , as shown by the telecasting , which incur 38,000 retweets in less than 24 hours .
So , apart from seeking social medium stardom , or summoning the devil , what the hell are these psyche - bobbing turkeys doing ?
" This will have set about as fairly typical conduct where the boo are keeping a close oculus on a possible vulture , " Conservationist Jamie Wyver from theRoyal Society for the Protection of Birds(RSPB ) severalise IFLScience .
" I ’ve seen wildfowl do this with Canis familiaris – as the dog walks along the edge of a pond , the razzing swim alongside to watch where it is go . It ’s a sensitive scheme as it means the predator no longer has the constituent of surprise at its disposal . In this particular case I ’m not certain what has happened , but hopefully at some point the turkeys will realize the cat is no longer a threat!“TheCornell Lab of Ornithologyalso told us : " They are singular birds and they are checking out the cat , since it could be a potential marauder , but that ’s about the extent of it . The fact that they are circling in such a ritualistic way is somewhat strange , but not something we can pronounce with human intentions ! "
This seems to be the consensus among dud behavior experts ( who seem to be having an outstandingly interfering day this aurora ) . David Scarpitti , another wildlife life scientist and turkey aficionado , shared a similar explanation tothe Boston Globe , adding:”There ’s always a ring leader with one in care , and she likely encounter it to pass judgment the threat . And as she is doing that , the residual are following suit . It ’s just really creepy-crawly and weird . ”
As expect , the Internet has also been hard at work creating homages , bad jokes , and remixes of this unfeignedly bizarre behavior .
Never stop doing your thing , nature .
