0:07 when did this become a discussion on
0:09 giant cork screw [Music]
0:12 [Music]
0:15 penises well hi there happy American
0:19 Thanksgiving this is a turkey Alexander
0:21 Hamilton apparently said that no citizen
0:23 of the United States shall refrain from
0:26 Turkey on Thanksgiving day and not many
0:29 do we eat over 40 million of them each
0:30 year for Thanksgiving Day but this
0:33 command from Hamilton seems a bit odd
0:35 given that there's no evidence that they
0:37 ate turkey as part of the first
0:40 Thanksgiving dinner in 1621 though some
0:42 of their closest relatives were almost
0:44 certainly present relatives that you
0:46 probably wouldn't have guessed are
0:49 closely related to turkeys then why
0:51 would Hamilton single out the turkey
0:53 specifically I suspect that it has
0:55 something to do with a secret hatred
0:57 that Hamilton had for another Founding
1:00 Father Benjamin Franklin I mean did you
1:02 see Benjamin Franklin anywhere in
1:04 Hamilton's musical even the darn fool
1:06 that shot him had a major role but
1:08 Benjamin Franklin was conspicuously
1:10 absent makes you wonder well Benjamin
1:13 Franklin was also a major advocate for
1:15 the turkey he didn't ever actually
1:17 suggest that it should be our nation's
1:19 symbol but he did suggest that the
1:21 turkey whose head turns red white and
1:23 blue during the breeding season would be
1:26 a better symbol than the bald eagle for
1:28 it is a noble and courageous bird unlike
1:31 the bald eagle which he to be a bird of
1:33 bad moral character looks to me like
1:35 Hamilton didn't care for that comparison
1:39 one bit and he took his shot at the poor
1:41 turkey he didn't throw that one away but
1:42 how much do you really know about
1:45 turkeys and would it shock you to learn
1:47 that the close relatives of turkeys that
1:49 were actually eaten on Thanksgiving were
1:52 geese and ducks or that they're actually
1:54 two different species of turkeys and
1:56 you've probably only ever seen one of
1:58 them well let's not refrain from talking
2:00 about turkeys this Thanksgiving day and
2:03 all of their closest relatives because I
2:05 think we're all into that kind of thing
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4:13 about turkeys and all their crazy
4:16 relatives turkeys are part of the clay
4:19 Gallow and S which means rooster Goose
4:21 that's enough to make any serious Top
4:23 Gun fan cry it's also a pretty
4:25 reasonable name for this clade
4:28 previously we discussed the clade pale
4:30 ogy which is the CLA of Birds least
4:34 related to all of the other extent birds
4:36 that is to say that it diverged away
4:38 from the other birds before any of the
4:40 other bird lineages diverged away from
4:43 one another but the second lineage to
4:46 diverge away was this one the Gallow
4:49 Andi the pale ogy are the hagfish of
4:52 birds but the Gallow Andi are the
4:56 hagfish of the neogy the Gallow Ander is
4:59 composed of two major claves the Gories
5:02 the the rooster form birds or land fowl
5:04 and the ancera foris the goose form
5:07 birds or the water fowl which means that
5:11 turkeys and swans are closely related
5:14 which seems crazy but starts to make
5:17 more sense when you see this this
5:20 creature is a screamer they get that
5:23 name because they let out a loud scream
5:30 new
5:32 though I think it sounds more like a
5:35 goose which is interesting because it
5:38 looks more like a rooster but it tends
5:40 to live in and around water yet its feet
5:43 are not webbed at least not very much so
5:46 so is it a rooster or a goose well
5:48 molecular analysis suggests that
5:51 screamers are despite their resemblance
5:54 to galaform birds actually basil members
5:57 of the ancoris which suggests that the
6:00 common ancestors of the gallowan s
6:03 probably resemble more the galaform body
6:06 plan with the traditional duck body plan
6:09 evolving more recently within the ancera
6:12 form CLA sometime after the ancestors of
6:14 the screamers the family animedate
6:16 diverged from the rest of the clay all
6:18 three screamer species are found today
6:21 only in South America I honestly think
6:23 they look a bit like African secretary
6:25 Birds but with chicken bills and
6:28 slightly stouter more robust legs after
6:30 the screamer Lage diverged but
6:32 interestingly still before the
6:34 extinction event at the end of the
6:39 Cretaceous the family an serad diverged
6:40 as well from the other members of the
6:43 ancero foris this family is represented
6:48 today by a single species The Magpie
6:50 Goose and I want to be clear about this
6:54 both of these lineages diverged before
6:56 the extinction of the non-avian
6:58 dinosaurs this is important for two
7:00 different reasons first first it
7:03 demonstrates clearly that birds birds
7:04 that would clearly be identifiable as
7:07 birds coexisted with the nonavian
7:10 Dinosaurs it is a common misconception
7:12 that the dinosaurs turned into birds and
7:13 that's where they all went and while a
7:15 few species may have evolved along those
7:17 lines the evolution of birds had nothing
7:19 to do with the extinction of the
7:22 dinosaurs rather members of the Aven
7:24 lineage were the only dinosaurs that
7:26 survived the events that wiped out all
7:28 of the other lineages we actually have a
7:29 whole video about this from last
7:31 dinosaur December is anybody else as
7:33 excited as I am for dinosaur December to
7:35 be back here in a couple of weeks make
7:37 sure you have all of your notifications
7:39 on if you don't want to miss that okay
7:40 so that was the first thing but there is
7:43 something else that is rad here as well
7:46 not only did birds exist alongside the
7:50 other dinosaurs but multiple lineages
7:52 survived and survived to this day the
7:54 screamer lineage diverged before the
7:56 extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs
7:59 and so did the ANC serd lineage this
8:02 means that the ancestors of all three
8:05 ancero lineages independently survived
8:07 the extinction event that killed T-Rex
8:10 which is pretty rad that said the Anin
8:13 added lineage today is represented by
8:15 only a single species the magpi goose of
8:17 Australia and New Guinea now I should
8:19 mention that the magpi goose is not a
8:22 true goose and being the only surviving
8:24 member of its lineage it's more of a
8:27 Maverick than a goose oh yikes that had
8:28 that had two possible meanings and one
8:30 of them was yet another shot to the
8:33 heart for us Top Gun lovers I might need
8:36 a minute but uh anyway it does have much
8:39 more of the goose body plan especially
8:42 the bill which likely developed that
8:44 basic waterfoul shape somewhere between
8:47 the Divergence of the screamer lineage
8:48 and the Divergence of The Magpie Goose
8:51 lineage which again occurred before the
8:53 end of the Cretaceous but The Magpie
8:57 Goose does look quite a lot like a goose
8:59 uh some ways to differentiate it it is
9:01 black and white like a magpie not all
9:03 geese are black and white like that it
9:05 has relatively long yellow legs with
9:08 toes that are only slightly webbed and
9:11 unlike true geese it mols gradually and
9:14 thus does not pass through a flightless
9:16 stage like the last family of the ancero
9:18 foris but like this last group of the
9:21 ancero foris it has a penis I'll talk
9:24 more about that in a second because most
9:25 of the penis having birds in the whole
9:29 world belong to the largest family of
9:32 waterf the family to which all but four
9:35 of the 180 or so species of the ancero
9:38 foris belong the anad or as you more
9:41 likely know them swans geese and Ducks
9:43 which appear to be basically arbitrary
9:46 titles for different anat there is no
9:48 clear distinction between Ducks geese
9:51 and swans Flat Bill let's call you a
9:54 duck taller bill you can be a goose big
9:56 long neck duck you're a swan and we'll
10:00 mix in some other names like mergan teal
10:04 smw golden I scer Ider wdon Gadwall
10:08 shoveler pintail pochard scalp sheld
10:11 goose and shell duck just so it isn't
10:13 too easy to figure the whole thing out
10:15 whatever you call them this lineage that
10:17 also independently survived the in
10:20 Cretaceous mass extinction is clearly
10:22 doing the best of all the waterfall
10:24 lineages this family is generally
10:26 herbivorous though some like mergansers
10:27 are highly carnivorous they are
10:30 generally kind of flat bodied with their
10:32 limbs closer to the rear they are
10:35 buoyant and Float On the water's surface
10:37 but you know what they haven't lost
10:40 they're penises almost all birds lack
10:43 penises but most of the pale ogy and
10:45 most of the water fowl have them not the
10:48 screamers though and the penises of
10:52 water fowl are notoriously extreme now
10:54 water fowl are notorious themselves for
10:56 being monogamous or at least that's what
10:57 we thought until we started doing
10:59 paternity tests on their offspring
11:02 turns out that they engage in a lot of
11:05 extra pair copulations though some are
11:07 less promiscuous than others some even
11:12 breed for life but some are notoriously
11:15 uh what's a polite word for forceful
11:17 copulation well they do a lot of that
11:20 with their enormous prehensile Corkscrew
11:22 penises and I think we should talk about
11:25 that for a few minutes I mean wouldn't
11:27 you be a bit disappointed if we didn't
11:31 okay well both Magpie geese and ineds
11:33 have penises but whereas Magpie geese
11:36 mate on land most ineds mate in the
11:38 water and there's a bit of an arms race
11:40 going on under there you see generally
11:42 for birds to mate the female needs to
11:45 present her cloa to the male who presses
11:47 his cloa to hers to seal the deal and
11:49 sperm is transferred faster than you can
11:53 say uy doob Scooby Dooby bie via This
11:57 clal Kiss well that's not how it works
11:59 if you've got a penis in fact a male
12:01 might swim next to you and ask if you
12:03 know when the next migration is coming
12:05 and then bam suddenly you're carrying
12:07 his ugly little ducklings and his jeans
12:09 might not be the best in the pool if you
12:11 get my drift so it is long behooved
12:13 females to be rather difficult to
12:16 inseminate for example the vagina of
12:18 minan adids is shaped like a corkscrew
12:21 maze with many pocket dead ends where
12:25 sperms go to die if they aren't inserted
12:27 perfectly this makes the old swim by
12:29 fertilization much less likely
12:31 successful matings are much more likely
12:33 to occur if the female allows the male
12:35 to get into the correct position and
12:38 take his time maybe a second or two to
12:40 ensure that his sperm makes it to the
12:42 end of the Maze and as the female vagina
12:44 has become more elaborate and more
12:46 difficult to navigate the male penis has
12:49 become longer coiled and elaborate as
12:52 well some are even longer than the birds
12:54 that possess them and as there is always
12:56 a fitness incentive for males that would
12:58 otherwise not have opportunity to mate
13:00 to to find Opportunities to mate the
13:02 arms race continues and on that happy
13:05 note let's talk about turkeys weren't we
13:07 supposed to be talking about
13:09 turkeys when did this become a
13:11 discussion on giant cork screw
13:14 penises and how many times can we say
13:15 the word penis in a video before it becomes
13:16 becomes
13:19 demonetized okay turkeys turkeys don't
13:22 have penises in fact their entire clay
13:25 to the Gories are clal kissers no Under
13:26 the Sea funny business from the rooster
13:28 form Birds though they do tend to be
13:31 pretty promiscuous sorry Ben Franklin
13:33 Now The Gories Diversified from the
13:36 ancera foris before the screamers
13:38 Diversified from the rest of that CLA
13:40 this means that the Gories definitely
13:42 survived the Inc Cretaceous mass
13:44 extinction independently from any other
13:47 bird lineage and the first lineage to
13:49 diversify away from the rest of the
13:53 Gories was the family megapod which are
13:55 also known as incubator birds or mound
13:59 builders one megapod clade are even
14:01 called Bush turkey and they look a lot
14:04 like turkeys even though of all of the
14:07 galaform birds the megap poads are the
14:10 least closely related to actual turkeys
14:12 now something that the entire Gallow and
14:15 S clade has in common is that their
14:18 offspring hatch out very welldeveloped
14:21 they are called precocial Offspring
14:23 precocial meaning mature before its time
14:25 this is in stark contrast to many other
14:27 bird lineages that hatch very
14:30 underdeveloped naked blind and helpless
14:32 these are called altricial Offspring
14:34 altricial referring to the need that
14:36 they have to be nourished or nursed
14:38 though obviously not with milk as with
14:41 mammals so all members of the Gallow and
14:45 S are precocial but the 21 or so species
14:48 of megapod produce offspring that are
14:51 what are called super precocial somehow
14:54 they hatch even more welldeveloped than
14:57 a kiwi they are the most fully developed
14:59 of all birds birds at hatching they
15:02 hatch with full Wing feathers they can
15:06 run hunt and some species can even fly
15:10 on the day that they hatch most of them
15:13 simply do not require parental care and
15:15 that's a good thing because their
15:17 parents may not be anywhere around when
15:19 they hatch so who incubates the eggs
15:21 that's a great question did I mention
15:23 that in addition to being able to run
15:26 hunt and fly on the day that they hatch
15:29 they can also dig which is good because
15:32 if they couldn't dig they would probably
15:36 die megapod means great foot and refers
15:38 to their Burly legs and feet that they
15:40 use to dig remember when I said that
15:42 they're often called incubator birds or
15:45 mound builders well these guys don't
15:47 incubate their eggs like most birds they
15:50 incubate their eggs like many of their
15:52 closest living non-avian relatives the
15:55 crocodilians and turtles they bury their
15:58 eggs either in a burrow or in an above
16:00 ground compost Mound that they build
16:03 with their great feet the same great
16:05 feet that their offspring will use to
16:08 dig themselves out before flying away
16:10 and that they also use to break out of
16:12 their thinly shelled eggs since they
16:14 have no egg tooth their feet can be used
16:16 to distinguish them from most other
16:18 members of the galap foris not only
16:21 because of their robust size but based
16:24 on the location of the rear-facing toe
16:27 the H in most galaform birds like
16:30 turkeys the h is not only rear-facing
16:32 but elevated off of the ground when
16:35 walking not so with the mega pods it's
16:37 right on the ground with the other three
16:39 toes so if you're anywhere in austral
16:41 Asia and you see a turkey- is looking
16:44 bird with its rear-facing toe on the
16:46 ground pop out of a hole or a mound look
16:49 around and then fly away well you'll
16:51 know what you house I've probably spent
16:53 too much time on them but at the same
16:54 time I kind of want to make a whole
16:57 video about this group alone how cool
16:59 are these guys oh and and to answer your
17:01 question yes this group probably did
17:03 diversify before the extinction event
17:05 that killed the non-avian dinosaurs
17:07 though the next group to diversify away
17:09 from the turkey lineage may not have
17:12 done so until after the in Cretaceous
17:14 mass extinction though the molecular
17:16 evidence would suggest otherwise and
17:18 these are the family crad of South
17:20 Central and Southern North America the
17:24 approximately 56 species of kurasa guans
17:26 and chakal lakas this is another group
17:29 of birds that look A like turkeys
17:31 unsurprisingly though they tend to be
17:34 longtailed smaller and spend more time
17:36 up in trees this is reflected in the
17:38 location of the HX which again is more
17:40 on the same level as the other toes not
17:42 elevated for this reason many early
17:45 philogynes plac them with the megapodius
17:47 though subsequent molecular analysis has
17:49 revealed that they're actually more
17:51 closely related to all of the other
17:53 galliforms than they are to the MEAP
17:55 poads it is likely that the lower
17:58 placement of the Helix is the ancestral
18:01 condition and it moved up after the CD
18:04 lineage diverged from the other G forms
18:06 like turkeys their body plumage tends to
18:08 be fairly drab but their heads can be
18:11 quite spectacularly beautiful and like
18:14 MEAP pads they hatch very welldeveloped
18:18 while they are not as super precocial
18:20 they do often fly within just a few days
18:23 of hatching not too shabby now the rest
18:25 of the Gories were a single lineage at
18:27 the end of the Cretaceous and only began
18:29 to diversify during the eocene and the
18:31 first of these groups to diverge from
18:34 the rest of the Gories is a family of
18:37 birds that I personally do not like and
18:40 those would be the guinea fowl of Africa
18:43 the family numid which I don't like
18:45 because they are too good at getting run
18:47 over by trucks you see when I worked at
18:50 Disney's Animal Kingdom many of my best
18:52 friends were Safari drivers and I should
18:56 mention that the second scariest part of
18:59 being a safari driver is is the fact
19:01 that if you hit an animal you are fired
19:03 which means that you lose your job and
19:05 your housing and your entire life
19:08 essentially explodes and there would be
19:10 little excuse for hitting an animal well
19:13 unless that animal is small stupid and
19:16 likes to run under tires I believe every
19:19 guinea fowl that they had cost somebody
19:22 their job and that was the second
19:24 scariest thing about being a safari
19:27 driver I'm just glad it wasn't my job so
19:29 I have a certain animal vity towards
19:31 guinea fowl but that doesn't mean that
19:33 they aren't a really cool group most are
19:35 dark bodied and some have spots one
19:38 species the vulturine guinea has some
19:40 beautiful iridescent blue feathers as
19:42 well and then they have comparatively
19:46 tiny generally naked heads the one genus
19:48 has crazy New Kids on the Block hair
19:51 well feathers but you'll know which ones
19:53 I'm talking about the helmeted guinea
19:56 fowl really looks like a tiny CAW it
19:58 almost looks more like a double waddled
20:01 caer than the dwarf caer doeses and it's
20:05 an actual caer but unlike ceries guinea
20:08 fowl are great Flyers despite the fact
20:09 that they spend most of their time on
20:12 the ground following herds and troops of
20:14 monkeys eating the seeds that the
20:15 animals deposit as well as the
20:17 arthropods that they attract they can
20:20 actually fly great distances and this
20:22 seems like a good time to discuss white
20:25 meat versus dark meat which is better
20:27 well it depends how long are you going
20:30 to be flying or running or using that
20:33 muscle many galaform birds are burst
20:35 Flyers they generally walk or run but
20:38 when startled they can absolutely
20:41 explode into the air turkeys are a good
20:44 example of burst Flyers their flight
20:47 muscles are composed almost entirely of
20:49 fast twitched fibers these fibers
20:52 contract very quickly and provide a lot
20:54 of power for a short period of time they
20:57 can explode into the air but they won't
20:59 stay up very long long this is because
21:02 white muscle like this is very low in
21:06 mitochondria the PowerHouse of the
21:08 cell when I ask them nobody ever knows
21:10 what a Powerhouse is but what
21:13 mitochondria do is they convert energy
21:14 in the form of carbohydrates fats and
21:17 proteins into a form that the cell can
21:19 actually use for energy adenosine
21:22 triphosphate ATP and they do this using
21:24 oxygen this is actually the reason that
21:26 you breathe in to get oxygen to allow
21:29 this process called aerobic cellular
21:31 respiration to occur in the end aerobic
21:34 cellular respiration produces ATP and
21:36 also water and carbon dioxide this water
21:39 byproduct is the reason that camel humps
21:41 are full of fat and not water you can
21:45 turn fat into water and ATP hooray the
21:48 CO2 is actually waste from the food that
21:51 you ate that could no longer be used to
21:53 make ATP and is expelled that is why you
21:56 breathe out it's your lunch and again
21:59 white fast twitch muscle is very low in
22:01 mitochondria this means that they can do
22:04 very little aerobic respiration so birds
22:06 like turkeys can slowly load their
22:09 muscles with ATP and then use it rapidly
22:11 but not for very long they recharge very
22:13 slowly and if they tried to fly for very
22:16 long they have to use Anor robic
22:19 respiration to make ATP this doesn't
22:21 require mitochondria or oxygen but it
22:23 makes very little ATP and it creates
22:26 lactic acid as a byproduct in animals
22:28 this is what makes your muscles burn
22:29 when you do a prolonged workout and if
22:31 you keep going it will change the
22:33 acidity of your muscles to the point
22:35 that they will seize up cramp which puts
22:39 a quick into flight so they fly hard but
22:41 not for very long before they have to
22:43 stop and recharge for a very long time
22:45 they're like Teslas and in ludicrous
22:47 mode well that wouldn't work for birds
22:50 that need to fly farther birds like
22:53 guinea fowl these birds have dark slow
22:55 twitch muscles that are loaded with fats
22:57 and mitochondria they don't have the
22:59 same amount of speed and power as the
23:01 white fast twitch fibers but they can
23:04 recharge their ATP stores rapidly and
23:06 without producing much lactic acid it's
23:08 the Toyota Prius of the sky another way
23:10 to distinguish a guinea fowl from a
23:12 cassowary other than the flying and the
23:15 fact that it's from Africa would be by
23:18 looking at their feet they have aalex
23:21 caor have none and for the first time in
23:24 the Gories it's elevated as it will be
23:27 in the remaining two lineages and while
23:29 I will confess guinea fowl are actually
23:32 pretty cool Birds I absolutely adore
23:35 these last two clades these last two are
23:37 the most closely related clades among
23:40 the Gories being the new world Quail
23:43 odonto forde I love quail and the turkey
23:45 and their rad cousins in the family
23:49 fasan I love pheasants okay let's start
23:51 with the quail and save the turkey for
23:53 last I mean you can't leave without
23:55 learning about turkeys what would
23:57 Alexander Hamilton say it's unamerican qu
23:58 qu
24:00 they're adorable I love them there are
24:02 actually two groups of birds often
24:05 called Quail three really they're around
24:07 34 species of New World quail in the
24:10 family odono for that's what we're
24:13 discussing now there are also more than
24:16 a dozen species of Old World Quail that
24:18 are all more closely related to turkeys
24:20 than they are to the new world quail and
24:24 I said old world quail in quotes because
24:25 they aren't one another's closest
24:28 relatives either basically any f anid
24:32 that looks and acts sort of like an Odon
24:34 forid they called an old world Quail but
24:37 anyway let's talk about the new world
24:40 Quail I love them most of them are
24:42 unsurprisingly found in the Americas
24:45 from Canada to Brazil but a couple are
24:46 from Africa and a few have been
24:48 introduced elsewhere like New Zealand
24:51 New World Quail are smallish round cute
24:53 little birds that are shy and run around
24:56 in adorable little families I love them
24:58 so much unlike Guinea fowl they have
25:00 feathered heads and often sport fancy
25:03 little head ornaments called plumes or
25:06 Top Knots little families of cute little
25:08 Samurai just walking around in your
25:11 neighborhood I love them so much they
25:13 tend to walk and are burst Flyers so you
25:15 know what their flight muscles look like
25:17 but you would never eat them because
25:19 they're too cute for this world I might
25:21 need some quail and Clin reptile room we
25:23 might need to do a video soon to find
25:25 out if they're the best pet dinosaur for
25:28 me but when I think about getting a bird
25:29 that looks like a dinosaur I think of
25:32 two groups the pale ogy and we will be
25:34 doing a pet video about one of them this
25:35 December just in case you're
25:37 notifications weren't turned on but I
25:40 also think of these is that not one of
25:42 the most beautiful things you've ever
25:46 seen this is a golden pheasant I do
25:49 consider getting one it is glorious and
25:51 that tail just brings that therapod
25:54 profile together it's Perfection golden
25:56 pheasants are part of the same family as
25:59 the turkeys fean an along with about 184
26:02 other species most of them being from
26:04 the old world Africa Asia Europe
26:06 Australia and New Zealand though Grouse
26:10 are circumpolar and the turkeys both
26:12 species are distinctly American is't
26:15 that right Mr Franklin as are a few
26:17 others they are generally plump
26:19 heavy-bodied birds with Short Round
26:22 Wings most obviously not turkeys have
26:24 feathers on their heads and some species
26:26 have a spur on their leg above the
26:28 elevated h
26:30 these are birds like pheasants
26:32 partridges jungle fowl the closest
26:34 relatives to domestic chickens turkeys
26:38 both species oldworld quail and pea fowl
26:41 which are called real turkeys Pabo in
26:43 Spanish there are also two species of
26:47 those Grouse monals prairie chickens
26:52 tarmigan cyes Argus bur fowl Franklins
26:55 and snow coocks and phog genetically
26:57 there is little Rhyme or Reason to the
26:59 com names of any of these but they are
27:01 pretty cool so let's take just a minute
27:03 to talk about turkeys I'd hate to be
27:06 challenged to a duel because I refrained
27:07 from talking about turkeys on
27:09 Thanksgiving there are two species of
27:12 turkeys one of them being the largest of
27:14 all fanid the species you're probably
27:17 more familiar with is the wild turkey of
27:19 Eastern and Central North America that
27:21 has been domesticated and often appears
27:24 in grocery stores around Thanksgiving
27:26 you know to keep Hamilton on your side
27:29 must be nice interestingly the domestic
27:32 turkey has been domesticated for around
27:34 2,000 years so it wasn't Hamilton's
27:37 close relatives that did it you may be
27:39 unfamiliar with the wild turkey's
27:41 closest relative the gloriously
27:45 beautiful oscillated turkey of Mexico
27:48 and that region turkeys are easily
27:51 distinguishable by their naked heads and
27:54 snoods you know that crazy lump that
27:56 suddenly enlarges and covers the beak of
27:58 a turkey when it starts to stress it's
28:01 called a snood I would like to shake the
28:03 hand of whoever came up with that name
28:06 that's my kind of person tragically the
28:08 snood is often the target of attack from
28:10 other turkeys so to prevent
28:12 complications from snood related
28:15 injuries domestic turkeys often have
28:18 their snoods removed by a process called
28:20 desing that's terrible but you know
28:24 what's wonderful snoods those suckers
28:26 get up to 6 in Long when fully inflated
28:29 and they say that size doesn't matter
28:30 but they must not be talking about
28:33 snoods because size totally matters
28:36 females prefer to mate with long sned
28:38 males and other males also defer
28:40 dominance to larger sned males when it
28:44 comes to snoods size is everything kind
28:45 of makes you wonder if Hamilton had a
28:47 tiny little snood doesn't it the
28:49 oscillated turkey of the Yucatan
28:52 Peninsula in Mexico bise in Guatemala
28:55 has a very similar overall shape to the
28:57 wild turkey of the north but they are
28:59 small smaller and their bodies are much
29:01 more colorful those eye spots on the
29:03 tail feathers are the reason for their
29:07 name and both sexes have blue heads even
29:10 the snood is blue blue
29:12 snood I saw him standing
29:17 alone that snot it was so long I had to
29:20 make him my own and now you know which
29:23 group should we cover next as always
29:26 like And
29:28 subscribe we hope see real
29:33 soon what the heck was that suddenly you're
29:38 singing's what is
29:47 wonder lit come [Laughter]
29:52 [Laughter]
29:55 on so much in
29:57 Endo all right let's do this people
29:59 people we'll do it live
30:01 live
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