Name:Meleagris ocellata
Alias:Meleagris ocellata,Ocellated Turkey
Outline:Landfowl
Family:Chickeniformes Pheasants Turkeys
length:About 1 meter
Weight:2.4-5.4kg
Life:10-12years
IUCN:LC
The Ocellated Turkey (Ocellated Turkey) is one of two species of Turkey with no subspecies.
The eye spotted Turkey feeds on grass seeds, leaves, berries and various insects, as well as small animals such as frogs and lizards.
Fish, amphibians and birds can reproduce asexually under certain circumstances, with turkeys and eye-spotted turturkeys being known for their ability to do so. Unfertilized eggs produced by hens can be incubated without roosters, giving both birds a high reproductive rate, but the resulting offspring are usually sickly and almost always roosters.
Eye spot Turkey is favored for its large size, rapid growth, strong disease resistance, high reproductive rate and lean meat percentage. This chicken is not only tender in meat quality and light in taste, but also has "good nutritional value". One high and two low" The advantages (high protein, low fat, low cholesterol), in the world market is considered to be the ideal health food for patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. At a time when mad cow disease and foot-and-mouth disease were ravages Europe, large exports of Turkey and ostrich meat ensured the economic benefits of the meat trade in many Western countries. Today, these two types of chicken have become one of the main meats in Europe and North America after beef.
The distribution range of the eye spotted Turkey is narrow and limited, and it is believed that there is a moderate decline in the population, which is due to habitat loss, rainfall reduction, tourism impact, and road development, resulting in changes in the living environment. It is listed as a threatened species.
Listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) 2016 Red List of Threatened Species ver 3.1 - Near Threatened (NT).
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