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My Life as a Turkey
2011 · Film · documentary · 60 min
Naturalist Joe Hutto's remarkable experience of being imprinted on by group of wild turkey hatchlings, and raising them to adulthood and beyond, in the remote wilderness of northern Florida.
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The story reminds me a bit of the scientist who raised turkey hatchlings as a "mother turkey" and learned their calls and behaviour. Really fascinating documentary if you can find it: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2496522/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0133r58 Edit: It has its own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Life_as_a_Turkey
apparently, turkeys have a pretty understandable language. There's a documentary, My Life as a Turkey [1]; he was able to decipher what each call meant (e.g. which squawk meant "snake" and which one meant "eagle"). So, if you were walking with a turkey, and you saw a snake and wanted to warn it about it, you could, in theory, communicate with it.
[1] https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/my-life-as-a-turkey-introduction/7268/
Nature did a documentary about his raising and observations of a clutch of wild turkeys from hatching to release a couple years ago. Full episode is on pbs.org[1].
[1] http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/my-life-as-a-turkey-full-episode/7378/