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.

And we're live.

Live indeed.

I would say we're alive, you know, because that's what I feel right now.

I feel more alive than I did earlier this week.

Yeah.

My kids have, uh, they've just sucked the life out of you.

Well, is that what you're saying?

They, they almost did this time.

I mean, I feel like they give me so many colds that, you know, they've sucked the life out of me at times.

The, uh, having a, a really young child around the house and daycare, man, we have, we've had like every single disease that goes around. Yeah. It has come through our household. Yeah. Every one of them. Some of them

two or three times. Yeah. Somebody's always got a, somebody's always got a runny nose or a cough. Yeah. We're constantly runny-nosed. So we did a, we did an earache earlier this week. Oh, yeah? And had a night with about three total hours of sleep. So that was fun. But I think we're all in the mend now. Oh, well. Well, just wait for the next one.

Yeah, that's right.

We've had pink eye and earaches and favors and coughing and, you know, just everything you can line up.

Several things are grosser that I will not mention.

Yeah.

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