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Show How Dumb Can You Get M. Gallopavo: How Does He Live So Long American families have come to pretty much take for granted the lerving, at Christmas and Thanks-' ivlng, of one Meleagris Gallo-pavo Gallo-pavo (Turkey to you). What they don't realize is that it is amazing Mr. Gallopavo lives long enough to reach the age of edibility. It's hard to believe that a bird that literally doesn't know enough to come in out of the rain, that would starve to death if it weren't The problem is not with the first drink but In knowing when to stop. Young turkeys will drink themselves into a waterlogged water-logged stupor if left alone. taught to eat and that would drink Itself to death if not watched, would ever reach a dining table. Take the drinking for example. Like many humans their problem Is not with the first drink, but In knowing when to stop. A young turkey will dip its beak, lift its head, dip its beak, lift its head, possibly hypnotized by the rhythm, until it falls over. Turkeys will panic at almost anything any-thing yet they will get used to some unusual surroundings. Out on Long Island, in New York, there is a large turkey farm near two jet aircraft plants. Jets scream and roar over the farm at all odd hours of the day and night and turkeys don't pay the slightest attention |