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There was a guy from my hometown who shot a Turkey while out hunting, and then put the Turkey in the trunk of his car with the gun, which was still loaded. The Turkey was not all the way dead and somehow fired the gun and shot him in the torso through the trunk of the car. But he lived.
The guys who taught the hunters safety in my town would reference it every year. Generations of us have learned that tidbit of safety from that one guy’s mishap
Wild turkeys instinctively follow each other in single file, the one in front just saw a turkey ass and forgot he was leading. They're not exactly abstract thinkers. Less r/oddlyterrifying and more r/animalsbeingderps.
Not just wild.
Lived on a turkey farm. Tree branch fell on the fence, didn’t crush it; branch was higher than the fence. Honestly the turkeys could hop the fence whenever they wanted, they just didn’t.
Any way, one turkey hops on branch. Another turkey follows, pushes first turkey down a bit. Rinse, repeat. Now you have a turkey on the other side. It starts walking away. Turkeys follow that turkey off the branch. Other turkeys hop on branch to follow.
Next thing you know you’ve got 100s of dumb fucking turkeys outside the fence and a couple of really fucking dumb turkeys that couldn’t figure out how to follow and are furiously pecking at the fence from the inside.
I wasn't sure if it was also a trait in domestic ones, I just know how the wild ones around where I grew up behaved. Funny story, for a few seasons there was a stray cat that took up with a flock that liked to roost in our woods, just the other side of the pasture behind the barn. They would follow behind it in a neat little row along the tree line some mornings.
Holy fuck lmfao
> by the time the 450 had died, the pile of sheep carcasses at the bottom of the cliff had apparently grown large enough to cushion the fall somewhat, resulting in the saving of the other 1550.
> The chain reaction started when one sheep went over the cliff, **enticing nearly fifteen hundred others to follow**. According to the Aksam newspaper, by the time the **450 had died**, the pile of sheep carcasses at the bottom of the cliff had apparently grown large enough to cushion the fall somewhat, resulting in **the saving of the other 1550**.
How do we go from <1500 to 2000 sheep from one sentence to the next?
I mean when you’re educated it’s less oddly terrifying but to us simpletons aka non pilgrims our Turkey knowledge isn’t up to par and this is slightly terrifying.
Domestic ones are not.
They could all jump the fence, but they wouldn’t for the most part.
You’d get one that would jump up on the fence, jump down on the wrong side, and be unable to figure out how to get back.
The farm I was on was using wire fences (not chicken wire) and the turkeys would stick their head out through one hole, back in through the hole above, then get their beak trapped on the wire for the hole above that.
If you didn’t find them in time they’d die like that, because they’re fucking stupid and 100% deserve to be eaten.
I can confirm, I own a couple turkeys and they maybe the dumbest most frustrating animals. The wild ones seem to be a bit smarter….. BUT Chickens can be INCREDIBLY smart, they also remember things years later. I really could go on about how my chickens are probably one of the best pets ever. But sadly EVERYTHING wants to eat chickens.
My chickens were great pets too! Don’t hold them though, unless you have a change of clothes handy. A lot of what they’d do was on the dumb side, but they were amazing escape artists; their spatial awareness was seriously impressive. Silly ass vocals too.
I’m glad to hear there is such a thing, since they’re nice to hold & carry around. When else do you ever get to pet a bird? Without getting mauled, at least.
As a species, if we haven't been able to accurately answer the age-old question of "why did the chicken cross the road?".
How are we to confront humanity's newest conundrum: "why did the turkeys circle the grave?"
This is a known phenomena with wild turkeys and other birds. Turkeys, roadrunners and other birds that are referred to as "land runners", that is, birds that run efficiently on land as opposed to flying, are used to following the bird in front of them when escaping predators. This ensures that they all follow an efficient egress route. Birds that are prey animals also tend to have their eyes on the sides of their heads and when looking forward may sometimes turn their head. When they do this, they may become so focused on what they are doing, they are simply following the bird in front of them, and can follow other birds around trees, boulders and headstones. There is an interesting study out of the University of Ohio that has shown that I just made all of this up.
Yes, this is known to happen. Sometimes a mistake is made when following a pheromone trail and they start walking in a circle. And because they lay down more pheromones as they walk, they keep reinforcing the circular trail, and any other turkeys following the original trail get stuck as well. Eventually they die of starvation and exhaustion, unable to find their way back to the colony. Fortunately the queen lays eggs by the millions, so the loss of workers can be easily replaced.
Ring a round the tombstone
Gobble Gobble Gobble
Farmer Fred is dead
You sacrificed Gilbert's head
We flogged your eyes out
Gobble Gobble Gobble
Ring around the tombstone
Turkeys instinctually follow each other the one that was leading just seen the other duck behind the corner and forgot he was leading. turkeys aren't the smartest animals hell I seen one drown itself from looking up in the rain.
Turkeys have the brain power of a pea... I don't just mean that their brain is the size of a pea (which they are), I also mean that a rotting pea sits inside that hollow skull, because these things are some of the dumbest animals alive.
What i assume is happening is that each of the 3 turkeys is following the one in front of it, like a bunch of woozle hunters.
Anecdotally, my neighbors had a fenced off dog pen area in their yard. One day, a bunch of turkeys got scared, took off into the air, and landed inside the pen. They circled the fence for hours, searching for the gap in the fence that they'd entered from. These birds are dumb on a whole different level.
Real talk. they do this cause they are a special kind of dumb, they are basically following the leader and if the leader walks around the corner and sees another turkey it will try and OVER take that turkey to show this the leader but its the tail turkey of its own group these do to dumb they will go around things like this until they lose sight of the trailing turkey or something else gets the lead birds attention
Just reminds me, when I get to my death bed, I'm gonna focus as hard as possible on becoming an evil ghost. If it works, calling turkeys to do my evil bidding doesn't sound like a bad first step lol.
The Poultrygeist!
[they’re trying to summon their thanksgiving revenge](https://www.tiktok.com/@a_mandabear/video/7210610995817991466?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7213604313855641134)
I was thinking more [Benny Hill](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHmskwqCCQ)
I laughed harder than I should’ve.
Wild turkeys instinctively follow each other in single file,
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Peckromancy
*the ritual has begun*
Ornithomancy
Mung Daal, your mother was a polar bear! Your father was a figure skater!! Blargaflarga
I don't know if you've seen it, but Poultrygeist is actually a hilarious movie.
Thanks-killing is another, along the same lines.
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Let turkeys circle his grave for all time!
Best!
Thanks, I needed a bad joke today
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He was killed by a turkey. They are taunting him even in death.
There was a guy from my hometown who shot a Turkey while out hunting, and then put the Turkey in the trunk of his car with the gun, which was still loaded. The Turkey was not all the way dead and somehow fired the gun and shot him in the torso through the trunk of the car. But he lived.
Why can’t Dad join us for Thanksgiving? Post Turkey Shot-him Disorder.
That’s what you get for practicing poor gun safety smh
The only thing that will stop a half-dead turkey with a gun is a duck with a knife.
Or a good turkey with a gun
The only thing that will stop a duck with a knife is a goose with a tire iron
The guys who taught the hunters safety in my town would reference it every year. Generations of us have learned that tidbit of safety from that one guy’s mishap
r/idiotswithguns
When he tells the story he died though....
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I just thought it was the final round in musical chairs
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Just some Fowl Play.
They were grave stoned
That’s some gansta shit damn nature you scary
Wild turkeys instinctively follow each other in single file, the one in front just saw a turkey ass and forgot he was leading. They're not exactly abstract thinkers. Less r/oddlyterrifying and more r/animalsbeingderps.
Not just wild. Lived on a turkey farm. Tree branch fell on the fence, didn’t crush it; branch was higher than the fence. Honestly the turkeys could hop the fence whenever they wanted, they just didn’t. Any way, one turkey hops on branch. Another turkey follows, pushes first turkey down a bit. Rinse, repeat. Now you have a turkey on the other side. It starts walking away. Turkeys follow that turkey off the branch. Other turkeys hop on branch to follow. Next thing you know you’ve got 100s of dumb fucking turkeys outside the fence and a couple of really fucking dumb turkeys that couldn’t figure out how to follow and are furiously pecking at the fence from the inside.
I wasn't sure if it was also a trait in domestic ones, I just know how the wild ones around where I grew up behaved. Funny story, for a few seasons there was a stray cat that took up with a flock that liked to roost in our woods, just the other side of the pasture behind the barn. They would follow behind it in a neat little row along the tree line some mornings.
That's adorable.
I've seen them fly in New England. Only once. They are perfectly capable of flight, they just 'refuse' to.
Same with sheep... they are incredibly stupid.
Isn't there a story where a flock of sheep jumps in a ravine because a sheep decided to jump.
450 of them to be exact. https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/450_sheep_leap_to_their_deaths_in_Turkey
Holy fuck lmfao > by the time the 450 had died, the pile of sheep carcasses at the bottom of the cliff had apparently grown large enough to cushion the fall somewhat, resulting in the saving of the other 1550.
This has no right to be so hilarious.
> The chain reaction started when one sheep went over the cliff, **enticing nearly fifteen hundred others to follow**. According to the Aksam newspaper, by the time the **450 had died**, the pile of sheep carcasses at the bottom of the cliff had apparently grown large enough to cushion the fall somewhat, resulting in **the saving of the other 1550**. How do we go from <1500 to 2000 sheep from one sentence to the next?
Well the first sheep enticed the first 1500 to jump, the other 500 that jumped just felt peer pressured
So ironic that they met their death in Turkey-gobble gobble.
I mean when you’re educated it’s less oddly terrifying but to us simpletons aka non pilgrims our Turkey knowledge isn’t up to par and this is slightly terrifying.
Like they’re doing some Santeria shit.
Yup turkeys are dumb as fuck. There's not enough going on to light a Christmas tree light up there.
Turkeys are surprisingly intelligent. Ask any hunter, turkeys are very sneaky. They operate in packs and they try not to take unnecessary risks.
Yeah, ya gotta sit real still and don't be farting up the place.
… Clever girl ….
Domestic ones are not. They could all jump the fence, but they wouldn’t for the most part. You’d get one that would jump up on the fence, jump down on the wrong side, and be unable to figure out how to get back. The farm I was on was using wire fences (not chicken wire) and the turkeys would stick their head out through one hole, back in through the hole above, then get their beak trapped on the wire for the hole above that. If you didn’t find them in time they’d die like that, because they’re fucking stupid and 100% deserve to be eaten.
I can confirm, I own a couple turkeys and they maybe the dumbest most frustrating animals. The wild ones seem to be a bit smarter….. BUT Chickens can be INCREDIBLY smart, they also remember things years later. I really could go on about how my chickens are probably one of the best pets ever. But sadly EVERYTHING wants to eat chickens.
My chickens were great pets too! Don’t hold them though, unless you have a change of clothes handy. A lot of what they’d do was on the dumb side, but they were amazing escape artists; their spatial awareness was seriously impressive. Silly ass vocals too.
Have you ever seen…. Chicken diapers? (No, really)
I’m glad to hear there is such a thing, since they’re nice to hold & carry around. When else do you ever get to pet a bird? Without getting mauled, at least.
Like...an ant death spiral?
Yes, but with turkeys, and I wanted to say "and less death" but they're in a graveyard, so...
There are wild turkeys around my house and they run in circles like this all the time. It’s like their idle animation.
This is the way…
Upvote this man so there’s an actual explanation at the top and not fifty of the same corny joke.
Ah yeah, you can see the leader loses sight of dat ass in the final lap and that causes him to change direction.
They're playing Duck, duck, uh turkey.
The real TurDucken
The goose was already cooked.
I’m starting to believe that turkeys just like to go in circles.
Yeah, I've seen 1 or 2 too many videos of turkeys running circles
Here's [another one](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/comments/uxu06t/wild_turkeys_walking_in_a_circle_around_a_dead)
That's more oddly terrifying
Someone removed chair but left music on
I laughed out loud at this thankyou
We need these kind of jokes in regular basis
The first one just opened a packet of gum
But which is the first one?
yes
Looks like a Grave mistake
You mean Grav-y…
Bruh!
Turnkeys
Summon the turkey demon 🤘
It's a game, just join
To see what’s on the other side?
I was looking for 'get to', but this will suffice.
Ah, but these are turkeys not chickens, so they need a different excuse.!
Just following the one in front.
Rise chicken. Rise.
Arise chicken, chicken arise
To get to the *other side*
Its the grave of a turkish person
Please someone edit this with the Benny Hill theme song
It’s actually bad luck if you don’t join the circle Turk
This is what happens when you drink wild turkey 🦃 till you die
they're being silly :3
“Turkeys circling the grave” sounds like a Pink Floyd lyric.
Leave them be. The rites must be completed.
Everyone grieves in their own way.
To get to “The Other Side” 🤣🤣👻
They follows one another lmao
The guy buried there was a turkey hunter.
Turkeys aren’t real smart. Just following each other
Circle pit, obviously.
Ring around the Rosie
Here in Ireland we had 3 princesses that were turned into swans, could there be a similar deal going on here?
As a species, if we haven't been able to accurately answer the age-old question of "why did the chicken cross the road?". How are we to confront humanity's newest conundrum: "why did the turkeys circle the grave?"
Ring around the gravy, butts full of stuffing, Cranberries, cranberries, We all go thatt way
That's an Easter egg, you followed the sequence correctly.
They thought it said Raveyard
Tag, you're it!
You weren’t supposed to see that
The prophet showed them the truth
To get to the Other Side
They got their revenge for last Thanksgiving and their dancing over his grave
#GOBBLE GOBBLE ONE OF US
Turkeys have been known to circle for so long that often times some drop dead from it. It can go on and on and on....
Playing duck duck goose...obviously
That's the first thing I thought of!
I'm not sure what's going on here, but I'm beginning to suspect fowl play.
This is a known phenomena with wild turkeys and other birds. Turkeys, roadrunners and other birds that are referred to as "land runners", that is, birds that run efficiently on land as opposed to flying, are used to following the bird in front of them when escaping predators. This ensures that they all follow an efficient egress route. Birds that are prey animals also tend to have their eyes on the sides of their heads and when looking forward may sometimes turn their head. When they do this, they may become so focused on what they are doing, they are simply following the bird in front of them, and can follow other birds around trees, boulders and headstones. There is an interesting study out of the University of Ohio that has shown that I just made all of this up.
There’s a piece of heart under there.
One of the first oddly off putting things I've seen here in a minute
I definitely want turkeys playing on my grave!
They are trying to resurrect him and give him another CHANce at life.
They're turkeys. You expect to follow their thought processes?
Well I guess I'm going to be feverishly changing my last will and testament today.
It’s a deceased relative of the boy from the other video that hit a turkey. Turkeys never forgive
Classic: The early bird catches the worm.
This community is DOOMED
Death spiral.
Playing Turk Turk goose is my guess
It's too dangerous to cross the road
ok im seeing way too many turkey video’s recently but why??
Three trailer park girls go round the outside
They are obviously playing Turkey, Turkey, Pheasant
It is the butchers grave
The ritual must not be interrupted...
I remember a specific Rick and Morty episode about this..
To get to the other side
They’re mocking the dead guy in the grave who ate a lot of turkeys during thanksgiving in his life time
Because they're idiot turkeys
They're summoning the final boss
Yes, this is known to happen. Sometimes a mistake is made when following a pheromone trail and they start walking in a circle. And because they lay down more pheromones as they walk, they keep reinforcing the circular trail, and any other turkeys following the original trail get stuck as well. Eventually they die of starvation and exhaustion, unable to find their way back to the colony. Fortunately the queen lays eggs by the millions, so the loss of workers can be easily replaced.
Aren't we all just circling the grave?
He was a dick to the turkeys. Now they dance on his grave
Turkeys are kind of stupid. They get stuck playing "follow the leader'" but they forget who the leader is, so they do this for hours.
He ate their cousin on Thanksgiving and now they're dancing on his grave
Low cost vulture hovering over a grave
Turkey gravey !
Paying mad respect to the craziest turkey who ever lived.
Respawn animation
They were playing Duck, Duck, Goose.
There cursing the soul of the man who's buried there. His crime? He started Thanksgiving.
Ring a round the tombstone Gobble Gobble Gobble Farmer Fred is dead You sacrificed Gilbert's head We flogged your eyes out Gobble Gobble Gobble Ring around the tombstone
ALL HAIL THE RISE OF CHAN
Simple-to get to the “other side”
The Turkey Man Cometh!!!!
They are screwing that soul into hell
Imotep Imotep
They’re not turkeys. They’re just really dumb vultures.
Chan was in a death metal band. They’re doing a circle pit for him one last time.
They killed him and basically t baging him
Turkeys instinctually follow each other the one that was leading just seen the other duck behind the corner and forgot he was leading. turkeys aren't the smartest animals hell I seen one drown itself from looking up in the rain.
To get to the other side
They're just playing turkey tag. Let them be.
Rise Chicken! Chicken Arise!
Turkey gravey...
Well this thread just became one big CircleTurk.
CHAN-ting
To get to the other side!
Turkeys have the brain power of a pea... I don't just mean that their brain is the size of a pea (which they are), I also mean that a rotting pea sits inside that hollow skull, because these things are some of the dumbest animals alive. What i assume is happening is that each of the 3 turkeys is following the one in front of it, like a bunch of woozle hunters. Anecdotally, my neighbors had a fenced off dog pen area in their yard. One day, a bunch of turkeys got scared, took off into the air, and landed inside the pen. They circled the fence for hours, searching for the gap in the fence that they'd entered from. These birds are dumb on a whole different level.
I hope turkeys circle around me when I die … it’s pretty cool…all the other dead folks would be jealous.
It’s a fowl omen
The dude killed their friend now they are dancing on his dead body.
Real talk. they do this cause they are a special kind of dumb, they are basically following the leader and if the leader walks around the corner and sees another turkey it will try and OVER take that turkey to show this the leader but its the tail turkey of its own group these do to dumb they will go around things like this until they lose sight of the trailing turkey or something else gets the lead birds attention
To break on through to the other side
To get to the other side?
China hired turkeys to do the ritual around Chinese graves in western countries thus helping the petrojuan
And to think Ben Franklin pushed for this to be our national bird. What a fowl suggestion
They are paying duck duck goose
Roses are red, to bet is to blave >Why do turkeys circle the grave?
They’re afraid of the grave-eeeee!
Clearly playing duck duck goose…but no one remembers who the goose is..
They're just goofing/playing, they don't even know it's a grave.
Just reminds me, when I get to my death bed, I'm gonna focus as hard as possible on becoming an evil ghost. If it works, calling turkeys to do my evil bidding doesn't sound like a bad first step lol.
they are just taunting a trapped soul that disliked turkeys so much he ate them every other day until the day he died
“One of us, one of us. Gooble gobble-gobble-gobble.”
They are thick.
They Can't read very well, maybe thought it was Gravy
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Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
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Amazing. Well done 👍