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Turkeys at Harvard Square

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Kamal Malik

April 22 2022

The turkey is called the Indian rooster by the French, the English and the Americans call it the Turkish rooster, and in Turkey it is called the Indian chicken, and in India it is called the Peruvian chicken, and in Arabic it is called the turkey or the turkey, and in Greece it is called the French chicken or gálos in relation to Gaul, while the Iranians call it bouqlimoun.

What is the origin of these birds?

The origin of turkeys from America's chicken, as known in ancient Mexican civilizations and Astjelbha Europeans travelers to the ancient world in the early 16th century, and as usual in the nomenclature, the named was often attributed to the default home or the country in which it is known.

I was walking down a side street off Harvard Square one day when the traffic suddenly stopped and a chauffeur came out yelling angrily, not at any of the drivers, but at the huge turkeys that were strutting in Dalal as they crossed the road.

I later learned that these huge birds (may weigh up to 20kg) occupy Harvard Square, amidst the luxury real estate and the best shopping and dining in Cambridge.

You may see or do not see students walking around Harvard Square, but you will always see the triple known from turkey, known as the means of social communication on behalf of Larry Mo and Curley Joe, or in the name Dewey Chittym and Hao, or Tom's father, Tom Jr. and Tom III: Three turkeys live Currently for three weeks at the intersection of Massachusetts Street and Harvard Street, across from Hong Kong restaurants and Grafton Street.

It seems that the trio is «Thomz» (mature males) and perhaps «Jake» is very small (Male immature) or chicken.

Identify easy to Ataiwmz through its size and scattering tail feathers majestic, in addition to the coloring head in blue and white, beard turkey cock - Wisp prominent of the chest a large red and Hacarh hanging from the chin, and function of attracting female (no one knows how), and look like birds happy legally forbidden loitering on the other Americans, known here as No loitering.

Turkey, as the peacock male, boasting the beauty of feathers may see in Harvard Square, a fluffs feathers and examine with interest his reflection in the window, or a cut off the road and behind him a convoy of his harem, and woe to those tempted to be approaching his harem to take a picture, because it Saahjm it aggressively It is blatant, so be careful with its sharp claws.

Extinct turkey, which is seen as a symbol of the old province of New England, to a large extent here, 50 years ago, when he decided to preserve the environment advocates pick up some of the birds north of New York and re-bred here in the seventies of the last century.

In the morning cold, finally, a group seen from these birds swaying casually south of Massachusetts Avenue in rush hour outside of Harvard Square, and it seems that she was oblivious to fast traffic, but reckon they crossed the pedestrian corridor, which lends credibility to the claim that these birds wild possesses intelligence in more than cousins domesticated street.

Slowed cars even stopped, pulling passers smart phones to record the moment.

EVERYDAY feeling surprised by what I see in Harvard Square, and found me, I am familiar with the literature of the trip, evoked a sense of surprise and strangeness when Idrissi in «Tabula Rogeriana», Ibn Battuta «rihla», and Chidiac in «revealed the cache Arts for Europe », and Tawfiq al-Hakim in the fields of Paris, and record oddity of the creatures and the wonders of the cattle in the cities of the new world.

* Visiting Scholar at Harvard University

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