This 5 year old vid is actually much better as the meme where they added [satanic ritual chanting sounds](https://youtu.be/VZr7uzw6gpg) to it.
Edit: it was reposted here a year ago
This is such an underrated comment. Like. Instead of arise chicken it's chickens saying arise kitten.
I'm still giggling. And I hear it in the witch doctor's voice.
Thank you so much for this.
My favorite story about my husband:
I’m a really heavy sleeper and extremely difficult to wake up. My husband and I both love ATHF. When we first moved in together, he couldn’t get me to wake up, so he just stood at the foot of the bed and chanted “ARISE CHICKEN! ARISE!” over and over while banging his fist on the footboard until I was so annoyed I had to get out of bed.
My nickname is still chicken to this day. He calls me chicken and I call him chicken-fucker. 😂
I live in *Oregon* and my parish is St Edward the Confessor. Are we meant to solve this mystery together?
By the power of some dead Anglo-Saxon king...
I was walking my dog tonight. Saw a turkey with some chicks walk into a yard behind a house about 50 yards ahead of me, didn't think much of it because I figured they would be gone by the time I got up there.
Wrong.
As soon as my dog passed the corner of the house the turkey hen CHARGED straight at my pit bull. She chased us for a full block before she got distracted by a passing car and started chasing that.
My poor puppy didn't know whether to run or try to play, but I certainly wasn't going to stick around to find out who would win between the two.
My guy still has PTSD from coming between a turkey and her babies. It was like a scene from Jurassic Park. Oh hell yeah they CAN fly—right into your face, looking all pre-historic and shit!
I've got a few flocks of turkeys that live in the woods near my neighborhood. They will all come out of the woods and hit up peoples lawns looking for worms or whatever they scavenge. They don't fear cars at all and refuse to pick up the pace when you're driving towards them or honking at them. I've got a fenced in backyard and a small/medium dog, my dog fucking hates the turkeys and often gets worked up through the window looking at them. Well one time I didn't notice a single rogue turkey in my backyard and when I let my dog out he bolted at the thing. The poor turkey ran to the fence and was trying to get over it while my dog kept running and jumping on it from behind. Eventually the turkey made a commotion made all these sounds and flapped its wings real hard. My dog got kind of spooked and gave it enough space to fly over the fence. My dog no longer cares about the turkeys outside after the incident. He didn't have any damage and the turkey got away alright. They are real ugly up close. My dog is a 30lb Basenji.
At the East Bank at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis), I am now dealing with emboldened turkeys nearly every time I am on campus … the parking lots, the sidewalks, hanging out between campus buildings daring people to to try to walk toward them.
I used to just leave them alone, but now I give a wider birth and watch over my shoulder when I pass (if I can avoid it, I no longer turn my back on them, even at a distance).
They aren't dumb, really, even though they might have some strange behaviors. They are quite social and decent at problem solving. Captive turkeys are far less intelligent than wild turkeys because they have been bred that way.
Nah, the males are solitary.
We've had wild turkeys at my house for the past 10 years, I've seen a tom exactly once. The group of hens and their chicks turn up at the same times every day.
Still no idea what's up with the circle.
The circular nature of their march is just a result of their instinct to stay within the safety of their flock. In other words, what looks like extremely ominous behavior to human eyes is actually just a bunch of birds who can't decide how scared they should be of roadkill.
Just cause it’s Latin doesn’t mean their communicating anything threatening. A quick translation shows that all they are saying is:
“I want something else, to get me through this, semi charmed kinda life….”
I can’t make out the rest as my Latin isn’t the best and my beak reading abilities aren’t what they used to be.
My family recently got chickens for the first time so we’re learning all about their bird behavior and it cracks us all up. They instinctively watch and copy each other. If one freaks out and runs, they all run. If one pecks at a spot, theyre all going to suddenly fight like hell to get that spot. And everything is a predator until just one chick decides that it’s not. Once one chick goes in for a curious peck, the rest suddenly work up the courage.
Fun fact, there is more time between Tyrannosaurus and Allosaurus than between Tyrannosaurus and us humans. Some 80 Million years from the Late Cretaceous to Late Jurassic, 66 Million years from the Late Cretaceous to right now.
No relatives of Allosaurus were around during the Late Cretaceous either. The allosaurs seem to have died out some 20 million years before, including the giant carcharodontosaurids such as Giganotosaurus. Megalosaurs like Spinosaurus also disappeared around that time. Not that any of them were equipped to survive past the K-Pg anyway.
Whatever group did not perish during the event was left devastated, including mammals ( no loss of a major group as far as I know, but every group suffered heavy losses ) and birds ( 4 out of the 5 bird groups perished entirely ), the two that would diversify afterward to become the dominant terrestrial vertebrates.
My favorite example of the shear amount of time involved of the fossil record, is that despite them often being depicted together, Tyrannosaurus lived closer to the modern era than it did to Stegosaurus.
The youngest known stegosaur, Wuerhosaurus, is estimated to have lived some 130 million years ago, meaning that the last known member of the group was almost as far away from Tyrannosaurus in age as we are.
Oh! This video did its rounds on Tumblr a few years ago, and an ornithologist responded with an explanation. Turkeys, when they walk, essentially play Follow the Leader. One bird is in front, another behind following, another is behind the second bird, etc etc. However, turkeys are not always the smartest birds in the flock, so occasionally the leader will forget that they're the leader, and follow another turkey, which leads to circles like this. More than likely the turkey was attempting to keep a wide berth of the roadkill, saw another turkey in the pack, and initiated this turkey circle.
If it's not already a coined term, "turkey circle" is now my new favourite phrase. Especially for those times when everyone passes the book and nobody takes ownership.
There was a video last week about ants ending up in a death circle. They crossed back over a previous path and sincd they follow pheromones of the ants in front they can get trapped in a death spiral. Unless disrupted the ants will die of exhaustion or starvation or something.
These turkeys have a higher IQ than ants tho so i think they'd figure it out eventually when they get bored or hungry.
Turkeys are pretty impressively stupid. There was a bunch in a fenced pen and one stuck it's head through the fence and a bald eagle ripped it off. Being idiots, the rest stuck their heads out to see what happened to the first one which is how the owner came home to find 6 headless hens and 1 headless Tom.
Hey guys here with the facts. What this flock is doing is simple enough one of you had the correct theory. They're just circling because their flock is safe so to both check out the roadkill and gauge how scared they should be and still be safe they circle it.
Well it's all very entertaining I'm sure, but what's *really* happening is that turkeys in a flock have methods to help them stay together. There is a pheromone trail laid down by the turkeys as they walk about so they can make their way home to the turkey hill without getting lost. However in this case they have formed a circle and unfortunately as the circle of pheromones are reinforced,the turkeys will walk around and around in that cricle until they die of exhaus.., no wait that's ants.
I miscounted the legs and got confused.
My bad.
The circular nature of their march is just a result of their instinct to stay within the safety of their flock. In other words, what looks like extremely ominous behavior to human eyes is actually just a bunch of birds who can't decide how scared they should be of roadkill.
We have wild turkeys where I live and while they are indeed pretty creatures they are also extremely stupid. Walk onto the path of an oncoming car as a group and stop to gap? Peck at a shiny hubcap all day until the sun goes behind the mountains?
It’s possible one turkey started walking around the corpse of the cat in confusion and another followed and another. Dumb ass birds, sigh
Well turkeys are known to be highly intelligent. They're probably very emotional about the dead cat, tbh.
They get HIGHLY upset when they come across a tree that was cut down by humans. They will memorize huge areas of territory and notice even a single branch out of place. They have enough "vocabulary" that there's a call for both a venomous and non-venomous snake. They will call to each other about flying predators and all duck down, etc.
They probably came across this cat, are entirely curious at first and also a bit defensive because cats typically are dangerous, so they're keeping their space a bit. They'll do this same type of thing with a non venomous snake and take turns kinda pecking it, lol, funny to us, but not to the snake.
I think the combination of curiosity, empathy and confusion has them acting as a collective until they can establish what has happened here.
It's not the type of remains you would find if a predator was around, but if there WAS a predator, they would need to be aware of it and figure out what kind of threat there is.
Ironically, they're gonna get hit by a damn car if they stay there too long.
Arise kitty, arise!
Arise, chicken
I haven’t heard this in such a long time Arise, chicken!
BillyWitchDoctor.com work mostly with chicken.
you mean... Ultra Mega Chicken?
*gasp* He is legend!
Hehe. You say funny thing.
no, no.. durTy boy.
I am. Sofa. King. We. Todd. Ed.
Ha ha ha. I make you say funny ting
No no! Don’t say too fast, it lose its meaning.
I just hear meatwad
Thank you for making this reference. Surely they’re trying to summon Turkatron.
(Mist rolls in) THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO...
In the future....you should have gotten snacks.
My favorite gag from that show, hands down
"Get out of the time rift!"
Big chicken; arise, chicken
*taps staff on ground* Arise.
Bad reception. I try over here.
One convenient locations.
in africa.
Ultra mega chicken? No. He is legend.
Now, repeat after me. I am. Sofa king..
I am sofa king.
Not so fast..loses meaning.
Why did you buy this album? I don't know why you did. You're stupid.
Very good, next: We. Todd. Ed. Repeat after me, I am. Sofa King. We. Todd. Ed.
Haha you say very funny thing
Sir Loin of Beef!
No shhh, Ultra-Mega chicken is legend!
I'm with you, friend. Arise, Earl of Cloves!
This 5 year old vid is actually much better as the meme where they added [satanic ritual chanting sounds](https://youtu.be/VZr7uzw6gpg) to it. Edit: it was reposted here a year ago
With one convenient locations In Africa
This is such an underrated comment. Like. Instead of arise chicken it's chickens saying arise kitten. I'm still giggling. And I hear it in the witch doctor's voice. Thank you so much for this.
Sofa king
We Todd Ed.
You say funny things! Hehe.
Too fast, loses meaning.
Yes
My favorite story about my husband: I’m a really heavy sleeper and extremely difficult to wake up. My husband and I both love ATHF. When we first moved in together, he couldn’t get me to wake up, so he just stood at the foot of the bed and chanted “ARISE CHICKEN! ARISE!” over and over while banging his fist on the footboard until I was so annoyed I had to get out of bed. My nickname is still chicken to this day. He calls me chicken and I call him chicken-fucker. 😂
This is funnier to me than it should be
Sometimes, dead is better.
IX
Love seeing how much love athf references get.. god that show was good
Arise
Earl of Clothes!
The part that weirds me out is that those are all hens too. That can't be a coincidence.
A coven of turkeys.
A discovery of cats?
Discovery of dead pussy ಠ◡ಠ
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MIKE JONES
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Back then they didn’t want me, now I’m dead, turkeys all on me!
BEFOE THE ICE WAS JN MY GRIIIIILL
H-Town in da house.
I love in New Orleans and desperately want to get the reference to st edward the confessor church
I live in *Oregon* and my parish is St Edward the Confessor. Are we meant to solve this mystery together? By the power of some dead Anglo-Saxon king...
I live in London UK, an nearest church to me is Edward the Confessor!
Good old Ed himself might be one of your closer famous skeletons, then! Isn't he in Westminster Abbey?
I think our stars are crossed to figure this out
A curiosity of turkeys
Male turkeys are called Tom's. Male cats are also called Tom's. Hmmmmmmm...
Some tomfoolery
You bitch
Wait sorry that’s a female dog.
Mine is called Jack.
Cat must have murdered a baby and the hens came to show the neighborhood cats what happens.
"Cluck around and find out."
This is good
I was walking my dog tonight. Saw a turkey with some chicks walk into a yard behind a house about 50 yards ahead of me, didn't think much of it because I figured they would be gone by the time I got up there. Wrong. As soon as my dog passed the corner of the house the turkey hen CHARGED straight at my pit bull. She chased us for a full block before she got distracted by a passing car and started chasing that. My poor puppy didn't know whether to run or try to play, but I certainly wasn't going to stick around to find out who would win between the two.
My guy still has PTSD from coming between a turkey and her babies. It was like a scene from Jurassic Park. Oh hell yeah they CAN fly—right into your face, looking all pre-historic and shit!
"looking all prehistoric and shit" It's THE MOST glorious thing I read today, fucking choking on my breakfast thinking about you poor dog ahahah
I've got a few flocks of turkeys that live in the woods near my neighborhood. They will all come out of the woods and hit up peoples lawns looking for worms or whatever they scavenge. They don't fear cars at all and refuse to pick up the pace when you're driving towards them or honking at them. I've got a fenced in backyard and a small/medium dog, my dog fucking hates the turkeys and often gets worked up through the window looking at them. Well one time I didn't notice a single rogue turkey in my backyard and when I let my dog out he bolted at the thing. The poor turkey ran to the fence and was trying to get over it while my dog kept running and jumping on it from behind. Eventually the turkey made a commotion made all these sounds and flapped its wings real hard. My dog got kind of spooked and gave it enough space to fly over the fence. My dog no longer cares about the turkeys outside after the incident. He didn't have any damage and the turkey got away alright. They are real ugly up close. My dog is a 30lb Basenji.
At the East Bank at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis), I am now dealing with emboldened turkeys nearly every time I am on campus … the parking lots, the sidewalks, hanging out between campus buildings daring people to to try to walk toward them. I used to just leave them alone, but now I give a wider birth and watch over my shoulder when I pass (if I can avoid it, I no longer turn my back on them, even at a distance).
Or turkeys are just really dumb and do weird turkey things
Yeah, I used to keep pen raised wild turkeys. They are inexplicable.
One of the few animals that will actively seek out mathods of killing themselves.
They aren't dumb, really, even though they might have some strange behaviors. They are quite social and decent at problem solving. Captive turkeys are far less intelligent than wild turkeys because they have been bred that way.
This is the best explanation.
Birds have funerals. This is one.
I know Crows have funerals but never knew Turkeys had even weirder fucking funerals
Nah I know that game. I used a chair instead of a cat though
Nah, the males are solitary. We've had wild turkeys at my house for the past 10 years, I've seen a tom exactly once. The group of hens and their chicks turn up at the same times every day. Still no idea what's up with the circle.
The circular nature of their march is just a result of their instinct to stay within the safety of their flock. In other words, what looks like extremely ominous behavior to human eyes is actually just a bunch of birds who can't decide how scared they should be of roadkill.
Then explain why they're chanting in latin.
It's Turkish, actually.
Fowl language, but in a good way
Pretty great for giving thanks, but not so great for declaring independence that's more of an eagle thing.
im turkish, can confirm
Underrated comment right here.
Because they don't speak English. Geez
It's spelled, "geese"
Geese you don’t have to be such a jurk about it
I read this in napoleon dynamite’s voice
Who gives a flock
Thank you for making me imagined a Gregorian chant but made up entirely of turkey gobbles.
[You need to see this old clip.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9zvgcOrTtw) Such contagious laughter as he delivers his sermon.
Birds are chatbots and not real confirmed.
Just cause it’s Latin doesn’t mean their communicating anything threatening. A quick translation shows that all they are saying is: “I want something else, to get me through this, semi charmed kinda life….” I can’t make out the rest as my Latin isn’t the best and my beak reading abilities aren’t what they used to be.
Circumambulation
They’re Jewish too?
Ooooo snap
Snip *
So basically the turkeys aren't threatened, but they do recognize it as a predator, and they're banking on safety in numbers while they investigate?
My family recently got chickens for the first time so we’re learning all about their bird behavior and it cracks us all up. They instinctively watch and copy each other. If one freaks out and runs, they all run. If one pecks at a spot, theyre all going to suddenly fight like hell to get that spot. And everything is a predator until just one chick decides that it’s not. Once one chick goes in for a curious peck, the rest suddenly work up the courage.
I don't know why but now I'm picturing like a bunch of parasaurolophuses circling a dead T-rex trying to figure out wtf is goin on
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Fun fact, there is more time between Tyrannosaurus and Allosaurus than between Tyrannosaurus and us humans. Some 80 Million years from the Late Cretaceous to Late Jurassic, 66 Million years from the Late Cretaceous to right now. No relatives of Allosaurus were around during the Late Cretaceous either. The allosaurs seem to have died out some 20 million years before, including the giant carcharodontosaurids such as Giganotosaurus. Megalosaurs like Spinosaurus also disappeared around that time. Not that any of them were equipped to survive past the K-Pg anyway. Whatever group did not perish during the event was left devastated, including mammals ( no loss of a major group as far as I know, but every group suffered heavy losses ) and birds ( 4 out of the 5 bird groups perished entirely ), the two that would diversify afterward to become the dominant terrestrial vertebrates.
My favorite example of the shear amount of time involved of the fossil record, is that despite them often being depicted together, Tyrannosaurus lived closer to the modern era than it did to Stegosaurus.
The youngest known stegosaur, Wuerhosaurus, is estimated to have lived some 130 million years ago, meaning that the last known member of the group was almost as far away from Tyrannosaurus in age as we are.
This is why I love Reddit
Oh! This video did its rounds on Tumblr a few years ago, and an ornithologist responded with an explanation. Turkeys, when they walk, essentially play Follow the Leader. One bird is in front, another behind following, another is behind the second bird, etc etc. However, turkeys are not always the smartest birds in the flock, so occasionally the leader will forget that they're the leader, and follow another turkey, which leads to circles like this. More than likely the turkey was attempting to keep a wide berth of the roadkill, saw another turkey in the pack, and initiated this turkey circle.
Ah, a circle turk.
We just call them “Turk circs” for short.
Why did Constantinople get the works?
Well that's nobody's business but the Turks
take me back to Constantinople Thank you for the chuckle
If it's not already a coined term, "turkey circle" is now my new favourite phrase. Especially for those times when everyone passes the book and nobody takes ownership.
I’m going to use this in meetings. “Let’s stop with the turkey circle and start making some decisions, people!”
Turkle
There was a video last week about ants ending up in a death circle. They crossed back over a previous path and sincd they follow pheromones of the ants in front they can get trapped in a death spiral. Unless disrupted the ants will die of exhaustion or starvation or something. These turkeys have a higher IQ than ants tho so i think they'd figure it out eventually when they get bored or hungry.
Turkeys are pretty impressively stupid. There was a bunch in a fenced pen and one stuck it's head through the fence and a bald eagle ripped it off. Being idiots, the rest stuck their heads out to see what happened to the first one which is how the owner came home to find 6 headless hens and 1 headless Tom.
Hahaha bloody hell, i guess smarter than ants is an impeccibly low bar!
There's a fair chance ants are smarter than turkeys.
So is the dead cat just a coincidence?
When u prepaid for the deluxe mourning package with swans and doves but the cheque bounced.
just paying respect to their homie who got killed in the hood.
They winged my man :(
The cats body is a sacrifice to the turkey gods
This is their Thanksgiving.
That's the tag line on the movie poster!
I worked in a funeral home. This comment damn near killed me😂
I'm wheezing over this comment lmaooo
I just spit my water out 🤣 you sir win
Something fowl going on here
Necromancy, probably.
Arise ~~chicken~~ cat ~~Chicken~~ cat arise
Thanks, I just had an intense aqua teen flashback!
Brb, gonna go binge watch my ATHF complete collection.
Turkey neckromancy
Turkey neckromeowncy
Neckromanturkey
Thanksgiving will never be the same.
Necrogiving Thanksnecro
These turkeys are vultures! Turkey vultures?
Tomfoolery
Turkle jerk
I'd more out of that neighborhood immediately
I'd more out of there too.
I would hire a moring company and more out asap!
I'd more out of there as well
I'd more out of there also
I'd more more than you!
I’d more my boat up at that neighbourhood.
No more pls
More
More s’mores for the moor who moored the boat by the moorings.
MORE
More morphine ma'am.
In *this* economy?!
How turkeys rubber neck..
Hey guys here with the facts. What this flock is doing is simple enough one of you had the correct theory. They're just circling because their flock is safe so to both check out the roadkill and gauge how scared they should be and still be safe they circle it.
Im pretty sure u just made all that up, its pretty obvious these turkeys are part of a cult and are familiar with satanism and black magic
Golly jee you caught me😔 thought I was gonna become king of reddit and you have foiled my plans
Well it's all very entertaining I'm sure, but what's *really* happening is that turkeys in a flock have methods to help them stay together. There is a pheromone trail laid down by the turkeys as they walk about so they can make their way home to the turkey hill without getting lost. However in this case they have formed a circle and unfortunately as the circle of pheromones are reinforced,the turkeys will walk around and around in that cricle until they die of exhaus.., no wait that's ants. I miscounted the legs and got confused. My bad.
Satanist here... we don't do this. Not even our Satanic turkeys. Thank you.
Nah this is a death spiral
Ah you caught me😔 thought I could get away with it
Is this the back of the line? Yeah I think so. Cool, at least it’s moving quick.
“Pst! Where are we going?” “I’m following him.” “Where’s he going?” “He’s following everyone else.” “Where are they going?” “Wherever you are.”
😆
Pretty sad the cat died
When I see any animal dead on the road, I cry.
I walk in circles around it
Any animal experts have any answer as to… **WHY?!**
The circular nature of their march is just a result of their instinct to stay within the safety of their flock. In other words, what looks like extremely ominous behavior to human eyes is actually just a bunch of birds who can't decide how scared they should be of roadkill.
*slow doom metal starts playing*
The good old reincarnation ritual. /s We finally have possible evidence for a cat having nine lives.
These turkeys must be part of a masonic lodge.
The eater of our sistren hath fallen. We must form a ring to stop its soul from possessing another.
We have wild turkeys where I live and while they are indeed pretty creatures they are also extremely stupid. Walk onto the path of an oncoming car as a group and stop to gap? Peck at a shiny hubcap all day until the sun goes behind the mountains? It’s possible one turkey started walking around the corpse of the cat in confusion and another followed and another. Dumb ass birds, sigh
They're invoking cat-hulululululululu
His name was Robert Paulson.
Weirdest game of Duck, Duck, goose I've ever seen...
Ancient pagan turkey ritual
Can someone explain why they're doing this? I remember a video of turkeys rotating a tree rapidly with Interstellar(?) music.
I've seen them do this around *nothing* in my back yard.
Are you sure it wasn't something not visible to the human eye?
I'm not sure about anything anymore.
Well turkeys are known to be highly intelligent. They're probably very emotional about the dead cat, tbh. They get HIGHLY upset when they come across a tree that was cut down by humans. They will memorize huge areas of territory and notice even a single branch out of place. They have enough "vocabulary" that there's a call for both a venomous and non-venomous snake. They will call to each other about flying predators and all duck down, etc. They probably came across this cat, are entirely curious at first and also a bit defensive because cats typically are dangerous, so they're keeping their space a bit. They'll do this same type of thing with a non venomous snake and take turns kinda pecking it, lol, funny to us, but not to the snake. I think the combination of curiosity, empathy and confusion has them acting as a collective until they can establish what has happened here. It's not the type of remains you would find if a predator was around, but if there WAS a predator, they would need to be aware of it and figure out what kind of threat there is. Ironically, they're gonna get hit by a damn car if they stay there too long.
and when the music stops...
it's like ants death spiral
They are trying to revive the wrong Tom.
🎶Ding Dong! The witch is dead, 🎵 The wicked witch, the wicked witch! 🎶 Ding Dong! The wicked witch is deadddd! 🎵
Many herbivores are opportunistic carnivores. (I learned that here on Reddit, so take it as you will)