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What kind of ants grow their homes through agricultural activities?

Many species of ants do not build anthills, but settle in special plant structures - domatia. The Fiji species Philidris nagasau is the only species that has gone further and directly distributes the epiphytic plants of the genus Squamellaria that it needs. Ants collect their seeds and plant them in cracks in the bark of trees, and then fertilize the seedlings with their waste.

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Where do turkeys come from?

Despite the fact that the homeland of the turkey is North America, the domesticated turkeys that served as decorations for the dining table of the Pilgrim Fathers arrived with them from England.

Turkeys came to Europe in the 1520s. First, they were brought from their native Mexico to Spain, and from there, through the mediation of Turkish merchants, they spread throughout the continent. Pretty soon this bird became the favorite dish of the wealthy classes.

By 1585, the turkey had become a Christmas tradition in England. Norfolk farmers quickly set to work, setting themselves the task of breeding a peaceful and docile specimen with a meatier breast from a wild turkey. The two most famous breeds - "Norfolk Black" and "Dutch White" - were bred in England and from there were re-imported to America. Most domestic turkeys consumed in the US today come from them.

Since the end of the 160th century, English turkeys have been marched every year from Norfolk to London, to Leadenhall Market. The whole journey was XNUMX km and took three months. The birds were even put on special leather shoes to save their paws.

A herd of 1000 turkeys was led by two drivers with long willow or walnut rods, at the ends of which a red rag was tied. During the few weeks leading up to Christmas, traffic on the streets of London was often completely paralyzed by huge herds of turkeys pouring into the capital from Norfolk and Suffolk.

Turkeys have nothing to do with Turkey (in English, a turkey is denoted by the word "turkey" which also means Turkey.). In England, the turkey was nicknamed "Turkish bird" ("Turkie cocks") - because of the Turkish traders who supplied it. Maize (corn), also native to Mexico, was once called "Turkie corn" for the same reason.

In most other countries, including Turkey, this bird was called "Indian" from the very beginning - apparently because the Spaniards brought it with them from the West Indies (as America was called in those days).

The closest to the truth were the Portuguese, who called the turkey reri. The native people of America, according to the Pilgrim Fathers, called the turkey furkee, although no one has been able to figure out what Algonquian language this word came from. The Choctaw Indians call the fakit turkey, after the sound it makes.

Even science, it seems, has not yet decided who should be called a turkey. The Latin name Meleagris gallopavo literally translates as "guineafowl-hen-peacock" and looks like a linguistic bet.

A male turkey is called a turkey (in English stag, gobbler or torn). The female is always a chicken (hen). Turkeys are the largest creatures capable of giving birth without prior sex, the result of such immaculate conceptions - without exception, male and sterile.

Most languages render turkey cooing as "glu, glu" or "kruk, kruk". In Hebrew, however, the turkey crows "te-karkerim".

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