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A video of agrarian turkeys creepily ambit a asleep cat has gone viral.
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Turkeys Walk in Circle Around a Dead Cat - YouTube | turkeys walking around dead catMore than a dozen turkeys can be apparent walking in a amphitheater about the cat in a video tweeted by @TheRealJ_Davis Thursday. “Yo, this is the craziest affair I accept anytime apparent - Turkeys walking in a amphitheater about a asleep cat in the average of the alley – what!” said the Boston resident, in the video. “Bro, this is wild!”
The cheep has been retweeted added than 56,000 times and racked up added than 89,000 likes.
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Alan Krakauer, a biologist at the University of California Davis, declared the beastly video as one of the spookiest he has apparent in an email to Fox News. The expert, however, additionally offered an account for the birds’ aberrant behavior.
["650"]“The turkeys are active about the cat because they anticipate it may be a predator. If the turkeys see a acreage predator like that, it apparently isn't an actual threat, but they appetite to accumulate an eye on it,” he said. “They may be teaching adolescent birds in the accumulation about it, and in accustomed circumstances, a predator would apparently appetite to move forth because it is not acceptable to be able to coursing if the turkeys are active to its presence.”
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Turkeys circle a dead cat - YouTube | turkeys walking around dead catKrakauer said that he has apparent agnate behavior back a coyote confused through a army of turkeys – with the birds befitting a “respectable” ambit from the predator. “The ambit behavior apparently stems from a ‘follow-the-leader movement’ behavior that turkeys sometimes use,” he explained. “In this case, I anticipate the army admeasurement aloof happened to be absolute so that the baton of ‘conga line’ met up with the tail, and they aloof kept activity annular and round!”
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