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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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This is not entirely unknown among domestic animals, but many domesticates have no living wild version. Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. Bringing animals that would require feed and water at that early stage would have been unwise.

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A Question of Migration

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Birds, because they fly, don’t store fat without paying a huge cost, which might in turn make them more vulnerable to variations in both food supply and thermal stress than ground dwelling animals. Another question this raises has to do with migration itself. Did birds repeatedly evolve migration because they can? 2 PIERSMA, T.,

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