Rick emails to point out the annual Yellville, Arkansas Turkey Trot festival. During the festival, they drop live turkeys out of an airplane. Really.
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As you'd imagine, this is pretty controversial. Now I can understand a bunch of flyover country folks flipping the bird to granola-eating PETA city folk who like to look down on them. I really do. But part of me thinks "Arkansas, man".
But it seems that turkeys actually can fly, but badly.
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Wild Turkeys can fly ( More or less )....
Free Range Turkeys can fly ( if their feathers aren't clipped )
Factory Farm Fattened for Market birds can only flap their wings as they plumment.
Happy Thanksgiving! God bless.
Certainly wild turkeys can fly; I've seen them doing it. (Merely seeing them roosting in trees, as one sometimes does, isn't proof; they could have gotten there by some other method - climbing, forklift, dropped from helicopter, born up there, whatever.)
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