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.

It's hard for a lot of people to reconcile what a lot of biologists say about predators and predator control when we often identify predators as the number one cause of mortality whether it be a nest or

poults or hens or whatever.

So, but you brought up some stuff that you had been working on, particularly related to nest predation,

that we thought it would be really interesting to go into here.

Sure, yeah.

No, I'm actually, I'm glad to be back, right?

I mean, you're our first, our first repeat guest.

Hopefully, I don't know if that's an honor or if I just screwed up so bad the first time.

I got to come back and redeem myself.

No, we're glad.

We're glad to have you back.

So thanks for taking the time.

But I will mention we may be actually releasing them out of order.

So this may end up being the one that goes up first, even though we recorded the other one.

That's all right.

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