[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Fish

Turkeys are really dumb. I agree with the explanation below. They were likely just following each other single file, and ended up in a circle of stupid after the leader checked out the cat and then started following the turkey in front of it.

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

It's funny you mention that. They have an animal expert from the Miami Zoo on the Dan Le Batard Show every week and he takes callers. Someone called about this, and he talked about how intelligent turkeys were, and said this was likely predator inspection, similar to what antelopes/gazelle will do on the African plains.

Ya think?

Originally Posted by Later in Fish's post

Biologist Alan Krakauer, an expert on the behavioral ecology of birds, offers an explanation that ascribes a little more intention to the birds. He tells NPR it's "most likely ... predator inspection behavior."