As much as we enjoy turkey on Thanksgiving, there is one fact we have to face: turkeys are dumb.
A poultry expert at the University of California, Riverside, tells SCIENCE DIGEST, “I don’t know of a domesticated animal with a lower IQ.
In fact, baby turkeys have to be taught to eat and drink. If left on its own, the turkey will drink and drink until it drowns, and whole flocks of gobblers may commit suicide through eagerness to follow one another blindly.”
One turkey rancher sums up the situation: “The turkey is beautiful to look at, fragile as a flower and stupid beyond belief.” We may be doing them a favor by putting them on the table at Thanksgiving.