You may have heard that turkeys are so dumb that they will stand in the yard, staring up at the rain with their mouths open, and drown in the process. This is an urban legend.

It was denied vehemently by a turkey owner who answered this in a forum I read who said her turkeys never drowned in the rain, but instead would huddle together miserably in their pen even when it then started to sleet, and shelter was only five feet away.

I think she refuted the evidence but not the original premise.

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