Back in the day, some of us teenage boys would get preened up and congregate on a street corner or other place where people were going by to ogle and comment on the passing young women. There even was a popular song about “Standing on the corner, watching all the girls go by.” We thought that we were irresistible and never wondered why most of the girls never gave us a second thought. Dignity seems to develop late, if at all, in males of all kinds.
Well, take a look at these four Toms yesterday doing the wild turkey strut-and-gobble shuffle:
And, this was all about one, that’s 1, I say ONE passing hen. And, she also never gave the Toms a second thought:
Pity the poor Toms who are compelled by nature to take the initiative to propagate the species. Researchers point out that these birds have to exert a tremendous effort to flex the musculature system over most of their body and keep it in peak tension for extended periods to do the strut-and-gobble shuffle. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on May 1, 2024.)