why are domestic turkey called stupid bird of the world?

Answer 1

Domestic turkeys have been so highly bred for fast meat production that they have lost most of their natural instincts -- to the point that they must be artificially inseminated in order to even reproduce because they cannot mate naturally.

Some of this might also be about learned behavior -- having never seen the example of a mother turkey to teach them, the young birds do not learn basic survival skills. (I know this is true with chickens. Free-run chicks hatched under hens are taught by their mothers how to scratch, find worms and bugs, take dustbaths, etc. Factory-farm chickens of the same breed are totally clueless when you put them outside.)

The original wild turkeys, on the other hand, are intelligent birds. We have them around here in Minnesota where I live. They suyrvive very well in the great outdoors, and are very crafty --ask anybody who has ever hunted wild turkeys, and they will tell you that outwitting this native bird is a challenge indeed. The same for birdwatchers who want to get a glimpse of one.

Answer 2

Domestic turkeys have basically been bred for stupidity. Whether it was deliberately selected, or just happened to linked to those birds that had the most meat I'm not sure, but the domestic turkey is definitely a whole lot dumber than its wild relative.

This is also seen in a number of other domestic animals, such as sheep and cattle. What it says for the increasingly domestic human is a matter for speculation.

BTW: The tale that turkeys drown in the rain is a myth. Turkeys, like most birds lower on the food chain, have eyes set more or less in the side of the their head. To investigate something, they turn one eye closer to that object to get a better look, they don't face directly towards it. Thus, if a turkey really did look up into the sky to see what was falling on it, it would turn the side of its face to the sky, and be in no danger of drowning. The tale that they look straight up is borne of anthropomorphism and exaggeration.

Answer 3

Because they were bred to be stupid. Now don't get me wrong, a wild turkey is an intelligent animal. In fact, Ben Franklin thought it be the national bird rather than the Eagle.

Now to the domestic version...

You have to put carpet down in the henhouse because the forget to squat when they lay their eggs.

During thunder storms, they drown, because they stare up at the sky with their mouths open...

You getting the picture?

That is why they are called stupid.

-Dio

Answer 4

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Answer 5

they're breed to be stupid