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Ask any turkey hunter about the sport and he or she will wax eloquent. Turkey hunting fulfills many ... Connecting the neck to the head just under the beak, the dewlap is present on both males and females but is more prominent on males. Like the caruncles and snood, the dewlap turns bright red when the tom gets excited.
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The small, smooth bumps on the tom (male) turkey's head and neck are called "caruncles" The "snood" is like George said. It also helps when the turkey becomes overheated. Wild turkeys do not have wattles. The single fold of skin under the turkey's throat is called the "dewlap";
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What is a lizard dewlap for? What is a dewlap on a zebra? What does a dewlap look like? What is the dewlap of a turkey? Mooses dewlap is used for what? Does a moose cow have a dewlap? What is another word for dewlap?
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a turkey's dewlap is the flap of skin under its neck. Also called a Wattle.
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Vaccination of turkeys via the wattle has been introduced as a novel route of vaccination using attenuated live viral turkey meningo-encephalitis (TME...
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To cite this Article Samina, I., Khinich, Y. and Peleg, B. A.'Vaccination of turkeys in the wattles (dewlap) with turkey meningo-encephalitis live vaccine ...
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Originally all I could think of was GOBBLE...and then thought Dewlap was Dewar's...and wasn't there some whiskey with a pic of a wild turkey on the bottle and maybe somehow that was related? So much for SOBERNESS.
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The MacGregors ( ... A Short History of Clan MacGregor ... Biography of Rob Roy MacGregor...
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[Middle English dewlappe : dew, of unknown meaning (akin to Danish and Norwegian dog- , in Danish doglæbNorwegian doglæp, dewlap) + lappe, fold; see lap2.] ... Wordsmith Words: dewlap ... What is a turkey's dewlap?
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