Female turkeys are smaller and less fur color colorful than the male turkey . While in the wild, turkeys are easily recognized from the wing span reaches 1.5-1.8 meters .
North American turkey species called M. gallopavo while Central American turkey called M. ocellata .
Turkey domestication results farmed for meat derived from the species M. gallopavo which is also known as wild turkeys ( Wild Turkey ) . While the species M. ocellata possibility is the result of the domestication of the Maya . There are people who think turkeys are bred for their meat comes from Mayan turkey . The reason the Mayan turkey more tractable than the North American wild turkey , but this theory is not supported morphological evidence . Turkeys have wattles result of domestication ( part sagged under half ) as evidence that domestic turkeys originated from wild turkeys M. gallopavo . Turkeys M. ocellata which maintained the Maya do not have wattles .
Wild turkeys are hunted animal in North America , but unlike domestic turkeys , wild turkeys fly agile and clever .
female turkeys
Turkey in various languages .
When the turkey was first discovered in the United States , the European one recognizes it as a bird of African origin Numida meleagris is also known as " turkey cock " because imported from Central Europe via Turkey . In English , the turkey still referred to as " Turkey " until now . Turkeys including the genus Meleagris which in Greek means " from Guinea fowl " .The names in the various languages of the world for turkey domestication results also reflect the name of the country of origin turkey " exotic " by the ancients . People look at the same old confusion about the country of origin of the turkey . At that time , people believed that the location of the American continent has just discovered is located in East Asia . In addition , the ancients like naming animals with the names of distant and exotic places in order to sell expensive .
Turkeys are Indonesian spelling for Dutch " kalkoen " taken from the name of the town Calicut in India . While the chicken is a term Malay Dutch to turkey . In Danish and Norwegian , also known as turkey turkey , or kalkon ( Swedish) , Kalkuun ( German downstream ) , kalkkuna ( Finnish) , and kalakuna in Papiamento language .
In Nahuatl , the wild turkey is called guajolote ( old spelling : xuehxolotl ) .
In Spanish it is called Pavo .
In Turkish called hindi which means " from India . " The French also call d' inde ( short for poulet d' inde the French language which means " chicken from India " ) .
In Catalan is called gall Dindi ( Indian chicken ) .
In Hebrew called tarnegol Hodu ( תרנגול הודו ) , which literally means " Indian chicken " . Incidentally , Hodu ( India ) is a homonym which also means " thank you " (English : " thanks " ) . So often there is a misunderstanding , " tarnegol Hodu " mistaken means " chicken for Thanksgiving " .
In Russian called indiuk ( индюк ) , Indyk in Polish , or indik ( אינדיק ) in Yiddish that all mean India .
In the Maltese language called dundjan ( read dondyan ) that although vaguely mean India .
In Arabic it is called deek Roumi ( ديك رومي ) which means rooster or bird Roman Ethiopia .
In Portuguese is called Peru , the same as the name of the country of Peru .
In Greek called gallopoula which means " French bird " .
In Bulgarian language called Пуйка ( puijka ) or Мисирка ( misirka ) which means the country of Egypt .
In Gaelic Scotland called cearc frangach which means " French Chicken " .
In Italian called tacchino .
In Japanese is called七 面 鸟( chicken shichimenchō seven face ? ) Or 칠면조 chilmyeonjo in Korean . The head lint gobbler can change color , so people consider turkey face can change depending on the mood .
In the Chinese language is called (火鸡) huoji because his head is red like the color of fire .
Asexual reproduction .
Turkeys are known to have the unique ability to reproduce asexually. Although there is no turkey males , female turkeys can produce fertile eggs . Children turkeys produced sickly and almost always male . This behavior can interfere with the incubation of eggs in turkey farm .Fossil turkey .
Most of the types of turkey now living fossils alone . Subfamilia Meleagridinae known from the early Miocene and has Rhegminornis genus ( early Miocene ) and Proagriocharis ( late Miocene / early Pliocene ) . Turkey fossil genus is unknown but similar to Meleagris known from the late Miocene .List of turkey known only from fossils alone :
Meleagris sp . ( early Pliocene )Meleagris leopoldi ( late Pliocene )
Meleagris progenes ( late Pliocene )
Meleagris sp . ( late Pliocene )
Meleagris Anza ( early Pleistocene )
Meleagris californica ( late Pleistocene )
Meleagris crassipes ( late Pleistocene )
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