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Wild Turkey Science

If not the season, what's the reason? | #78

Wild Turkey Science

Charlotte Nowak

Natural Sciences, Science

5.0587 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

After much feedback from our latest episode, we sit down to review through recent episodes and lay out the available data known to us. Covering season timing and reproduction to the predator-habitat complex, there's no tiptoeing around the controversy in this one. 

 

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:14.1

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.

0:26.2

We're both lifelong hunters and devoted scientists who are passionate about hunting, managing, and researching wild turkeys.

0:33.6

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

0:38.4

and address the difficult questions related to wild turkey ecology and management.

0:43.7

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

0:53.4

Well, we got a new background.

0:58.4

I was sitting still for you hoping you were going to comment on it.

1:01.9

Yeah, I thought it was just your thumbnail there for a minute.

1:05.7

Right.

1:06.1

Well, I'm just practicing for next turkey season because maybe, you know, maybe I just didn't sit still enough

1:14.4

this turkey season to have it go the way that I wanted to. So I better start, you know,

1:18.0

practicing my calling and sitting still right now. Yeah, you got to, uh, you got to rule out all the,

1:22.9

all the potential contributors.

1:28.0

Yeah.

1:33.0

Well, we've had a pretty good run of episodes here.

1:34.6

Mm-hmm.

1:43.1

Several in a row, including, you know, this last week that we had the Tennessee bunch on here.

1:44.0

Yeah.

1:51.7

It's kind of similar to what we did around this time last year and that we kind of explored all the different facets over the past several weeks of, you know, potential links between

1:58.1

mail harvest and turkey reproduction because that seems to be at the forefront

2:02.7

of the discussion right now.

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