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People have always wondered about the origin of turkey, a bird that has become a staple of Christmas dinner and inevitable part of Thanksgiving feast.

The bird Americans associate with Thanksgiving has been referred to by different geographic locations in various languages across the globe.

The first confusion of the large bird we call a turkey was made in the Mediterranean country of Turkey, which is thought the bird could be originated from.

“The bird is called a turkey because of some confusions. The turkey that we eat at Thanksgiving, genus meleagris, is a domesticated form of a wild

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