In 1973, college graduate Jim Nollman found out that if you can hit a certain pitch while singing, then male wild turkeys will sing on cue. He tested this finding by singing the song "froggy went a-courting"to 300 male turkeys and they all sang along with him! Smithsonian magazine did a great article about this, check it out at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/music-literature/atm-jukebox-200811.html#
What makes a turkey gobble?
Scientists are conducting research that change in general makes them gobble, whether the change be weather, temperature, migration, terrain or any others.
CRAFT!
Since todays blog is about turkeys, you can draw your own!
Take a piece of paper, a pencil, any markers, glitter, stickers, crayons, string, any craft supplies you would like to decorate the turkey with.
place your hand (opposite to the one you write with) and trace around it with a pencil.
move your hand and cut out the trace, and you will have a hand shaped cutout.
Take orange pipe cleaners (2) and make legs to put on the flat part of the hand.
draw eyes on your turkey and enjoy decorating it!!!
Feel free to submit a photo of your turkey to the contest tab, we'll put our favorites up on the main page when we get enough of them :)
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