Comments on: "As god is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly…" https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/22/as-god-is-my-witness-i-thought-turkeys-could-fly/ Sun, 25 Nov 2012 15:22:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/22/as-god-is-my-witness-i-thought-turkeys-could-fly/#comment-496212 Sun, 25 Nov 2012 15:22:33 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14451#comment-496212 Daniel: Good point!

js? I suppose it depends on how many offspring they have in their pouch at the moment.

]]> By: js https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/22/as-god-is-my-witness-i-thought-turkeys-could-fly/#comment-496211 Sun, 25 Nov 2012 09:17:40 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14451#comment-496211 We have bush turkeys in Oz that can fly quite well.
I haven’t ever seen them fly any great distance though.

]]> By: Daniel J. Andrews https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/22/as-god-is-my-witness-i-thought-turkeys-could-fly/#comment-496210 Sat, 24 Nov 2012 23:11:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14451#comment-496210 My brother and I laughed ourselves silly when we saw that way back then. My first reaction now is, “How did they tow a banner behind a helicopter without it getting tangled in the blades?”. Still funny though.

]]> By: Marnie https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/22/as-god-is-my-witness-i-thought-turkeys-could-fly/#comment-496209 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:18:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14451#comment-496209 Man alive that takes me back. Of course, I was 3 when the show first aired and 7 when it went off the air so it’s all a little hazy but I still remember parts of it really well.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/22/as-god-is-my-witness-i-thought-turkeys-could-fly/#comment-496208 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 15:26:28 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14451#comment-496208 Actually, Wild Turkeys can fly pretty well, though they don’t usually go far. I recently saw a flock of 6 or so hens rise up from the brush on one side of a highway, fly to the other side and end up in 45 foot tall trees; they went int a pretty straight line going up the whole way.

]]> By: Zme https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/22/as-god-is-my-witness-i-thought-turkeys-could-fly/#comment-496207 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 15:07:20 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14451#comment-496207 *WILD* turkeys can fly…sort of…more like a controlled plummet.

On the other hand, DOMESTIC turkeys…

]]> By: Romeo Vitelli https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/22/as-god-is-my-witness-i-thought-turkeys-could-fly/#comment-496206 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:55:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14451#comment-496206 If they could fly, do you think they’d stay put and let themselves be decapitated?

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