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.

Yeah, yeah, well, we had like another hour's worth worth of content didn't we yeah so we'll just

keep going with that and uh you know while we were getting ready for this um we were kind of

having a conversation about you know what it is we want to talk about exactly today.

And the way that I framed it was that Marcus and I are most familiar with turkey behavior by looking at dots on a map.

And what I'm referring to there is GPS locations.

And so one of the things that we're really excited about, you know, we just recently talked to some other

animal behaviors that have directly observed turkeys for various experiments. And then today,

we have on turkey royalty, right? Miss Tess Jolly is in the house. She's actually, actually in my

office, those of you that watch regularly probably recognize that.

We tried to sit across the desk from each other, but, you know, Tess lives just down

the road from Auburn.

So she was able to make it up.

And we were hoping to sit across the desk from each other, but there was just too much

echo.

So we came up with this alternative situation.

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