Y'all ever stop and take a close look at a Turkey's head before?

[CharlesAznable]

Like look at this demonic ass shit! Clearly this thing is not native to our planet.

 

[Steeped in a Sea of Games]

At least they're delicious. Otherworldly delicious.

 

[Admiral Woofington]

they look like a ballsack.

 

[Nameless Hero]

To this day I wonder who was the first person to think "I'm gonna eat this dragon/bird hybrid"

 

[Rook]

In anatomical terms, the snood is an erectile, fleshy protuberance on the forehead of turkeys. Most of the time when the turkey is in a relaxed state, the snood is pale and 2–3 cm long. However, when the male begins strutting (the courtship display), the snood engorges with blood, becomes redder and elongates several centimetres, hanging well below the beak.

Snoods are just one of the caruncles (small, fleshy excrescences) that can be found on turkeys.

While fighting, commercial turkeys often peck and pull at the snood, causing damage and bleeding. This often leads to further injurious pecking by other turkeys and sometimes results in cannibalism. To prevent this, some farmers cut off the snood when the chick is young, a process known as desnooding.

The snood can be between one and six inches in length depending on the turkey's sex, health, and mood.


The snood functions in both intersexual and intrasexual selection. Captive female wild turkeys prefer to mate with long-snooded males, and during dyadic interactions, male turkeys defer to males with relatively longer snoods. These results were demonstrated using both live males and controlled artificial models of males. Data on the parasite burdens of free-living wild turkeys revealed a negative correlation between snood length and infection with intestinal coccidia, deleterious protozoan parasites. This indicates that in the wild, the long-snooded males preferred by females and avoided by males seemed to be resistant to coccidial infection.

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Turkey (bird) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Caruncle (bird anatomy) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[TaySan]

:o i could see these birds in a doom game lol

 

[0VERBYTE]

I'm out...

 

[mangopositive]

they look like a ballsack.

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I think you should see a doctor about that.

 

[MoonsaultSlayer]

That doesn't look very scary. More like a two foot dinosaur.

 

[Doc Kelso]

The snoooood.

 

[Zultima]

Turkey (bird) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Caruncle (bird anatomy) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Sooooo size does matter

 

[Cocolina]

 

[BasilZero]

Dinosaurs

 

[etta]

That scrotum.

 

[The Deleter]

They look like they had a normal face until their entire face got cancer of five different varieties that just... became it's dna after the fact

The few hairs on the white back of it's head and lumpy growths

The genitalian lumps at the bottom of the neck growths

The long nose tongue that came from nowhere

Heyugh

 

[Elliott]

That's a scrotum.

 

[Deleted member 3010]

Looks like their faces are bloated with multiple tumors.

They're delish tho.

 

[Walter White Walker]

This why we should have finished what nature started and that was to end the dinosaurs.

 

[Psxphile]

 

[Deleted member 4367]

You can get a good look at the gizzards by sticking your head up a turkey's ass but I'd rather take the butcher's word on it.

 

[Grym]

I definitely will be working 'snood' into my everyday word choice

 

[Orange Piccolo]

the snood

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Well fuck, I just found my next username.

 

[Lord Vatek]

 

[Dreams-Visions]

Sooooo size does matter

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yes, yes it does.

 

[Okabe]

So cute ! I could just Gobble them up !

 

[Slappy White]

Circumcise that shit.

 

[SolVanderlyn]

How you expect them to gobble without all that red shit?