chicken turkey
Turkey or chicken turkey is the name for two species of large birds of the order Galliformes genus Meleagris.Female turkeys are smaller and plumage less colorful than the male turkey.
While in the wild, easily recognizable from the range turkey wings which reach 1.5 to 1.8 meters. North American species of turkeys is called M. gallopavo turkey while Central American origin is called M. ocellata.
Domesticated turkeys are bred for their meat comes from the species M. gallopavo, also known as wild turkeys (Wild Turkey). While the species M. ocellata possibility is the result of domestication of the Maya. There are those who argue turkeys raised for meat turkey derived from the Maya. The reason the Maya turkey more tractable than the wild turkeys of North American origin, but the theory was not supported by morphological evidence. Domesticated turkeys have wattles (part sagged under the beak) as evidence that the domestic turkey originated from wild turkeys M. gallopavo. Turkeys M. ocellata preserved Mayan people do not have a wattle.
Wild turkey is hunted in North America, but unlike domestic turkeys, wild turkeys fly nimble and clever.
When the turkey was first discovered in America, the Europeans recognize it as a bird of African origin Numida meleagris, also known as "chicken turkey" because it was imported from Central Europe via Turkey. In English, the turkey still referred to as "Turkey" until now. Turkeys including the genus Meleagris which in Greek means "Guinea fowl origin. "
The names in various languages of the world for Domesticated turkey also reflect the name of the country of origin turkey that "exotic" by the ancients. Once looked bewildered old man about turkey country of origin. At the time, people believed the location of the American continent only recently discovered is located in East Asia. In addition, the ancients like naming animals with the names of faraway places and exotic in order to sell expensive.
Turkey is the Indonesian spelling for the Dutch language "kalkoen" taken from the name Kalikut cities in India. While the Dutch Chicken is a Malay term for the kalkun.