Extended knowledge

Turkey: the pheasant is a walking bird. Also known as spit chicken. Body length110-115cm. Wingspan 125- 144 cm, weight 2.5- 10.8 kg. The head and neck are almost bare, with only sparse feathers, and there is a red sarcoma in the throat.

Wild turkeys are native to North America, inhabiting temperate and subtropical forests, enjoying waterside woodlands and living at an altitude of 300-2500m. Outside the breeding season, the rooster and the rooster live separately. They feed on stems, leaves, seeds and fruits of plants, insects, and occasionally frogs and lizards.

Domesticated into poultry. Turkey is tender and refreshing, with strong game, high lean meat rate and rich protein content. Thanksgiving Day is a traditional festival in western countries, and "Roasted Turkey" has become an indispensable specialty dish on the table.

History of zoology

Turkey was first domesticated as poultry in Oaxaca, Mexico, about the same time as the Neolithic Age in Europe (about 5000 BC in the Neolithic Age in Europe). Turkey was imported to Europe at the end of 15th century, and it was introduced to China even later. Turkey is also wild in the south of North America.

Wild turkey is a highland land bird native to North America. It is one of the two existing turkeys and the heaviest member of the Chicken Order. It is the ancestor of domestic turkey, originally from the wild turkey subspecies in southern Mexico (not the related monocular turkey). Although turkey is native to North America, its name may come from domesticated varieties, which were imported to Britain by ships from the Levant in Spain.

Therefore, at that time, the British associated wild turkey with the Turkish country, and the name prevailed. Another theory holds that another kind of bird, a guinea fowl native to Madagascar, was introduced to Britain by Turkish businessmen as the original source, and the term was later transferred to the New World birds by British colonists who knew the previous species.