Four seas entertainment news: March 2 morning, a strange video spread all over twitter. In the video, a group of turkeys are circling around a dead cat in the middle of the road. The user who posted this video @ thereal_ Jdavis, from Boston, said: 'this is the craziest thing I've ever seen. 'these turkeys are trying to give the cat a tenth life.
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On the morning of March 2, a strange video spread all over twitter. In the video, a group of turkeys are circling around a dead cat in the middle of the road. The user who posted this video @ thereal_ Jdavis, from Boston, said: 'this is the craziest thing I've ever seen. '
The turkeys tried to give the cat a tenth life.
Why do these birds do this? Alan Krakauer, a bird behavior ecologist at the University of California, Davis, says the birds may be conducting 'predator inspections'. Sometimes, animals at the bottom of the food chain come close to predators, and while this behavior may be risky, they can help their prey. Making predators aware of prey can sometimes scare off predators. Such 'inspection' can also make the prey feel how determined the predator is to attack them and warn other animals that danger is at hand.
Krakauer said he had seen turkeys behave similarly to coyotes. Richard Buchholz, a biology professor at the University of Mississippi, agrees, revealing that he has seen Turkey families (such as chickens, pheasants, and quails) behave like this. Following the tail of a chicken in front of it can keep them together.