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Show Turkey Perform Wild Dane Around Snaht I know oot If the wild turkey suffer suf-fer from snake bite; but at alght of a large make the bird will show extreme ex-treme excitement. 'If a flock be present pres-ent a alow dance will be begun about the reptile, the blrda lowering their wings, ralaing and spreading their tails and making a continuous querulous calling. Single birds will detach them-I them-I selves from the revoking circle to make frantic dashes at the aoake, says a story In 'Daya Off In Dixie." r. Tlila dervishlike ' performance will continue for an hour or more. If the snake la not too formidable he will likely be killed; but serpent of the proportions of a great diamond-buck rattler wlU ba left unmolested. "I once witaesaed this strung snuke dance In the mountain of southern Pennsylvania. From the top of n hanging ravine I looked .down through the mist of dawn and . counted the turkeys. There were 28 In number. They continued their antics about the snake for a full half hour, when the broke up the dance and begun foraging. forag-ing. The anake was a king snake and a large one. The turkeys probably loft him duzed and deafened, but otherwise oth-erwise he was unharmed." |