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.

Can you repeat that rant that you just went on?

No, I'm not going to repeat it.

I wanted all of our listeners to know the right way to hunt a turkey.

No.

Well, and by that, I should say, I need to clarify.

Marcus was not sharing a story about violating any kind of regulations or doing anything unethical. It was, we were, we had just finished up, you know, just sharing our personal opinions on hunting approaches, let's just say.

Well, and I think you should provide some other contexts.

We commonly bounce results off of each other to kind of get a reaction to see like hey what do you think about

these results and I had shown you some from our we're working on a relative density estimation

of turkeys range wide and I showed you some of the results that will be coming soon. So hopefully I'll be able to make that public soon.

When that map comes, our listeners are going to eat that map alive.

I mean, I shouldn't have said eat it alive.

They're going to eat it up.

They're going to love it.

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