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why do turkeys circle dead animals
Prepare yourself. You are about to attestant apparently one of the weirdest, ambagious things you will anytime see. This is not a joke.
["630.5"]I'm freaking out.
Twitter user J... saw a accumulation agrarian turkeys ambit a asleep cat in the street, as if they were assuming some affectionate of afterlife ritual, and we are so advantageous he accurate it.
What the f*ck is activity on here? What am I attractive at here?
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You apperceive how animals do aberrant things afore storms or accustomed disasters? Is this one of those times? Could this be an omen? Is this some affectionate of atrocious ritual? Will this asleep cat now be beamed up to some abstruse abode we can't see with our animal eyes?
After some analysis to try to explain such behavior, it turns out that agrarian turkeys do not commonly eat cats, or alike asleep cats. They about eat berries, plants, insects and baby vertebrates. So, this apparently rules out the adventitious that they were planning on bistro the cat.
However, bodies are predators to turkeys, generally bloodthirsty on them and their eggs. Was this cat a annoyance to this accumulation of turkeys and now they are ambit it as a allotment of a celebratory ritual?
["776"]OR, could this cat accept been these turkeys' baton and now they are aching its death? There is no affirmation of turkeys assuming "funerals" or rituals for the asleep like added animals do, but this could be the alpha of article new.
People of Twitter are of advance actual abashed by this and had a lot to say about the phenomenon:
I don't know, should this guy move to a new house? Is he in danger? Any turkey experts out there appetite to booty a able at this one?
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Please help.
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