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Meleagris Gallopavo
Two turkeys, clinging onto each others' beaks. This is a male competition or like similar to who has the best pose.
Woodland or Forest like area
Spotted on Jan 8, 2014
Submitted on May 25, 2014
2 Comments
Wow! Thank you!!!
Having had turkeys and raised a few, I can say that they are probably young males duking it out for dominance. I seen this quite a few times among brothers when they were getting close to being full grown. In fact I have a picture I took I took a while back here, http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=...
It seems that once they get a bit older the physical fighting gets pretty rare and it turns into a posing contest.