I have heard stories about turkeys and how dumb they are. Supposedly they stand in the rain and drink water and drown. Who does that, really?
There is a turkey that hangs out where I work (and I'm not talking about someone in upper management) and this turkey seems to have great self-esteem. This is the second year that a turkey has spent time around work gazing at itself in a car bumper. This happens day after day after day, rain or shine.
Sometimes when I walk by my reflection, I look away in absolute horror though when I was much fatter I would avoid my reflection completely, yet this turkey gazes into it's own eyes lovingly.
How dumb can it be to look into your own reflection and have that kind of admiration and love?
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Is it dumb to look into your own reflection and have that kind of admiration and love?
Damn.
Of course, the turkey doesn't realize it's himself he's looking at - he thinks there is another, really short-ass turkey with a funny, scrunched up body hanging around that car.
Be thankful he hasn't decided to fight with it..... yet.
I thought it might be a stretch but still...wouldn't it be something to not look away in horror?
I think you could write a post-modern childrens' book about the lonely turkey searching for love and acceptance in a corporate parking lot.
Poor thing.
tee hee..Lee..love that idea.. especially today in terms of the SC gov – seems that's what he was after.
POD - I wouldn't know - I'm of the "look away in horror" variety, myself.
I am going to ignore Bag Lady's comment (with all due respect Bag Lady) and pretend like you have it right, and maybe you do. Maybe last year he thought it was another turkey, but now he has figured out that it is his reflection and he thinks he is the Hugh Jackman of turkeys. Yeah, I'm going with that.
We've got wild turkeys in the area. I see them often when I'm off on a run. I like to hear them gobble away in the woods. They don't fly so good, but once I saw one in town fly out of a wooded area over a very busy road. He looked down and saw the traffic, and became the best flying turkey I ever saw as he did a 180 and flew back into the safety of the woods! Motivation is a beautiful thing!
Turkeys, the wild variety, are smart birds. It's the ones that have been born and bred to become Thanksgiving dinner on factory farms that are too dumb not to drown in the rain.
I bet the parking lot turkey is one of the wild ones, or close to it. So he must be pretty intelligent. Intelligent enough to love himself for who he is, and not for what others tell us we should be.
If so, could be turkeys are smarter than humans that way.
The Hugh Jackman of Turkeys, I love it!
I think there is actual research on the "does the animal know its looking at itself" question, and as I recall, it's pretty much "no" until you get to like, chimps. But I could be totally wrong on that.
However, metaphorically he's worth his weight in gold in terms of a self-acceptance message.
My childhood cat spent a little time in his youth hissing at the cat in the mirror, rushing to the back and front trying to get at this intrepid cat that had snuck into his house. It took a while but he did figure it out. I swear that he would lie in front of a long door mirror clean and admire himself. He was an above average cat tho.
I also have a brother who climbed a chair up to the kitchen counter to "kiss the baby in the toaster" one morning and was outraged that the baby bit him! (it was toasting at the time) he also figured it out. not as fast as the cat tho.
One thing my cat had on his side (well, he was extra handsome - I told him so every day) was the lack of the media to point out to him and every other cat - his various flaws. Otherwise he probably would have needed extensive therapy to cope with the notches on his ears.
It's not "gazing into its own eyes," it thinks it's another turkey.
(I just mistyped turnkey for turkey, and now I'm bemused by how close they are in spelling..."
MY DAUGHTER IS HAVING A BABY AS I WRITE!!!! I'm a little stunned.
Crazy smart! I would love to look at my reflection without thinking W.T.F. happened here!
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