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Sources

• "The Call of the Wild: Wildlife Biology Member's Manual Book." University of Minnesota
  http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/youthdevelopment/
  components/DA5762chapter2.html
• "Critter Country: Drown and Out." Snopes.com.
  http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/turkey.htm
• "Gobbler Genome Tapped." The Scientist, November 2003.
  http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/14227/
• Kansas State University: Turkey Tidbits
  http://www.mediarelations.k-state.edu/WEB/News/NewsReleases/
  listturkey11128.html
• "OSU animal scientist debunks dumb turkey myth." Oregon State University News, November 19, 2003.
  http://extension.oregonstate.edu/news/story.php?S_No=92&storyType=news