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Why do turkey and Turkey share the same name?
Once imported, Europeans came to call the guinea fowl the turkey-cock or turkey-hen, because the bird came from the Turks. When settlers in the New World began to send similar-looking fowl back to Europe, they, out of familiarity, called them turkeys.
Where are turkeys from?
Domestic turkeys come from the Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), a species that is native only to the Americas. In the 1500s, Spanish traders brought some that had been domesticated by indigenous Americans to Europe and Asia.
What was the importance of turkey in native cultures?
ative Americans have hunted wild turkey for its meat as early as 1000 A.D. They made turkey whistles out of turkey wing bones.
When and how were turkeys domesticated?
More than 1,500 years before Christopher Columbus and his crew sailed to the New World, Native Americans had already domesticated turkeys twice: first in south-central Mexico at around 800 B.C. and again in what is now the southwestern U.S. at about 200 B.C., according to a new study.
Can turkeys fly?
While the turkey you cook for Thanksgiving has never been airborne, wild turkeys can fly.
Why did Ben Franklin want turkey to be the national symbol?
The Founding Father argued that the eagle was “a bird of bad moral character” that “does not get his living honestly” because it steals food from the fishing hawk and is “too lazy to fish for himself.” In contrast, Franklin called the turkey “a much more respectable bird” and “a true original native of America.”
How did Ben Franklin cook turkey?
His aim was to entertain his friends by using electricity to set fire to flammable liquids, to kill a turkey with an electric shock and then cook it with electricity for their evening meal

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