A partial history of the turkey (Podcast)

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“As Thanksgiving ebbs into memory and Christmas looms on the horizon, Eat This Podcast concerns itself with the turkey. For a nomenclature nerd, the turkey is a wonderful bird. Why would a bird from America be named after a country on the edge of Asia? The Latin name offers a clue; the American turkey is Meleagris gallopavo, while the African guineafowl is Numida meleagris. But why did the first settlers adopt a name they were already familiar with, rather than adopt a local indigenous name such as nalaaohki pileewa for the native fowl. Simple answer: nobody knows…”

Listen to the podcast (with extensive notes) here…

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3 thoughts on “A partial history of the turkey (Podcast)

  1. Those wishing to oogle the original, Maya sort of turkey
    in all its oscillating dayglow glory should take themselves to Tikal and stick around till closing time, when, the scary tourists having departed, the ceremonial plaza turns into a strutting ground for the creatures ( the turkeys, that is .)

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