Welcome to Wild Turkey Science, a podcast made possible by Turkeys for Tomorrow.

I'm Dr. Marcus Lashley, Professor of Wildlife Ecology at the University of Florida.

And I'm Dr. Will Gulsby, Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Management at Auburn University.

We're both lifelong hunters and devoted scientists who are passionate about hunting,

managing, and researching wild turkeys.

In this podcast, we'll explore turkey research, speak to the experts in the field, and address

the difficult questions related to wild turkey ecology and management.

Our goal is to serve as your connection to wild turkey science.

There's pretty pictures in this article too

that's like one of the ways I rank articles to you know it doesn't have any pretty

pictures it's like number one topic area number two yeah my favorite thing is is you know

some of the journals today they start asking for for, like, high quality art and, like, illustrations of experimental design and stuff like that.

And I'm like, the best I can do is an iPhone picture.

And it may even be a picture of a picture.

That's horrible.

Don't you love that when you get pictures from people asking you about something

and it's a picture of their screen? Never screenshot at an image on a computer and use that in a

research publication, you know, like a figure. I've never done that. You know, you guys have

wanted to do this when they asked for the high quality art.

Have you ever just wanted to draw like a stick figure picture and submit that to them and see how they respond?

It's the best I can do.

Will and I were talking about in one of the episodes that we need to just come up with some

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