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Turkey Fun facts for kids
Meleagris gallopavo domesticus
The turkey lives on farms all over the world and eats grain, seeds and insects.
- Where it lives
- on farms all over the world
- What it eats
- grain, seeds and insects
- How big it is
- much heavier than a cat
Fun facts about the turkey
The ones Sammy likes best. She tells them in the game, too.
A turkey's bare head can change colour, red, white or blue, depending on how it feels.
A turkey can see almost all the way around itself without turning its head, but it can hardly smell anything.
Turkeys have no teeth, so they swallow little stones that grind up their food inside their tummy.
Wild turkeys fly up into the trees to sleep at night and glide back down in the morning.
Only boy turkeys make the loud gobble sound, and it can be heard more than a kilometre away.
Many boy turkeys grow a bristly beard of feathers on their chest, and a few girl turkeys do too.
A wild turkey can run about 40 kilometres an hour, and it can fly more than twice as fast.
Riddle
Can a friend guess it?
Read the clues to someone, one at a time, without saying the animal. How many clues do they need? Fewer is better, just like in the game.
I'm a bird that lives on farms all over the world and loves pecking at grain and seeds.
I have no teeth, so I swallow little stones that grind up my food inside my tummy.
I can see almost all the way around me without turning my head, but I can hardly smell anything.
My bare, bumpy head can turn red, white or blue, depending on how I feel.
I spread my tail like a big fan, and many families eat me for Christmas dinner.
Sammy might be thinking of a turkey.
In Thought Zoo, Sammy picks an animal and you ask her yes-or-no questions to find it. You'll find the turkey in the Farm adventure. It's free to play.
Play the FarmComing to iPad, iPhone and Android on 12 January 2027
