Thursday morning, Twitter user @TheReal_JDavis uploaded a video with the caption of a dozen or so turkeys repeatedly circling the apparently dead body of a cat in the middle of the street. The swaddle-necked birds appear to be in the middle of some sort of (satanic?) ritual as they slowly pace around the deceased feline.
https://twitter.com/TheReal_JDavis/status/837301561500057605
“This is the craziest things I’ve ever seen,” the person filming says. “Bro, this is wild.”
He’s not wrong. But why would these turkeys do such a thing? Gizmodo reached out to some bird scientists to find out.
“I can’t say I’ve heard of something like this before,” Debra Kriensky, a conservation biologist at NYC Audubon, told Gizmodo. “They’re omnivores but pretty much eat nuts and seeds and fruits, so certainly they wouldn’t be interested in eating [the cat].”
Mark Hatfield, wildlife biologist at the National Wild Turkey Federation, said the birds were “just making sure that it’s no longer a threat.”
“It’s more of a curiosity type of thing,” he added. “Turkeys are very basic.”
While Hatfield makes some good points, we still believe it’s part of Satanic seance. Never trust a bird.
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