Top 10 Best Turkey Breeds
Christmas, Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus. The English term Christmas (“mass on Christ’s day”) is of fairly recent origin. The earlier term Yule may have derived from the Germanic jōl or the Anglo-Saxon geōl, which referred to the feast of the winter solstice. The corresponding terms in other languages—Navidad in Spanish, Natale in Italian, Noël in French—all probably denote nativity. The German word Weihnachten denotes “hallowed night.” Since the early 20th century, Christmas has also been a secular family holiday, observed by Christians and non-Christians alike, devoid of Christian elements, and marked by an increasingly elaborate exchange of gifts. In this secular Christmas celebration, a mythical figure named Santa Claus plays the pivotal role.
In zoology, a turkey is any of the large birds comprising the subfamily Meleagridinae of Phasianidae, a family of birds that consists of the pheasants and their allies. There are two extant (living) species of turkeys, the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) and the ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata or Agriocharis ocellata). Formerly, turkeys were considered a distinct family, Meleagrididae, but more recently were reclassified as the subfamily Meleagridinae (AOU 2007).
Members of the two extant species have a distinctive, fleshy caruncle that hangs from the beak, called a snood. As with many galliform species (order Galliformes), the female is smaller than the male, and much less colorful. With wingspans of 1.5–1.8 meter (almost 6 feet), the turkeys are by far the largest birds in the open forests in which they live, and are rarely mistaken for any other species. The usual lifespan for a turkey is 10 years.
The wild turkey is native to North America and Central America and has been domesticated by the Aztecs since before Columbus arrived (Herbst 2001). The occellated turkey, which is native to Central America and Mexico, is not domesticated. It has eye-like spots on the tail and is the more brilliantly colored of the two species.
Turkeys provide a number of values to the ecosystem and to humans. Ecologically, they are integral to food chains, foraging a wide variety of plants and animals food, including acorns and nuts, seeds, berries, roots, insects, and even small vertebrates, like frogs and salamanders. In turn, they provide food for animals such as foxes, bobcats, and coyotes. For humans, turkeys provide a popular and nutritious food, rich in protein, niacin, and B vitamins (Bender and Bender 2005). They are a common staple of holiday feasts in North America,including Mexico, where turkey meat with mole sauce (mole de guajolote) is a popular national dish (Gerlach 2007).
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