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.

This may be a little too off topic, but I'm going to go there anyway.

Well, we've already been talking about sharks and mostly raccoons for the whole...

Well, I'm going to venture into the land of speculation for a minute and might feel no obligation to go there with me if you don't want to.

But we've been talking a lot,

Marcus, not only on our show, but on some other shows that we've been on recently about,

you know, how are we potentially influencing turkeys through baiting and feeding, right?

And it just, it, when, when Mike said that about these raccoons targeting these crayfish, which are, you know, only, there's a few feet of elevation change, but that puts them in areas that are outside of, you know, primary areas that turkeys are selecting for.

It just makes me think about you've got that spatial segregation of food sources.

Whereas when we put, you know, like, like a corn pile and an upland area, well, then you're shifting, you're doing that spatial segregation of food sources.

Well, that's a good point.

You would also put it in the dry place because you don't know what we're doing in the wet.

Right.

So it just makes me think about how there's certain practices that we might do that

change, you know, what otherwise would be two spatially segregated species,

at least in certain systems.

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