Domestic turkey
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domestic-turkey-183-10539658
title:
Domestic turkey
text:
The domestic turkey is a large fowl, one of the two species in the genus Meleagris and the same species as the wild turkey. Although turkey domestication was thought to have occurred in central Mesoamerica at least 2,000 years ago, recent research suggests a possible second domestication event in the area that is now the southwestern United States between 200 BC and 500 AD. However, all of the main domestic turkey varieties today descend from the turkey raised in central Mexico that was subseque
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Species of bird
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_turkey
date created:
2003-08-15T08:52:31Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T19:46:02Z
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13
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