Sentences with phrase «meleagris gallopavo»

Yet it is the domesticated cousin of the wily wild turkey, Meleagris gallopavo, which without its guile might well have gone the way of the passenger pigeon.

Today the wild turkey, Meleagris gallopavo, is native to much of the eastern and south - western US and Mexico, and falls into six distinct subspecies (see map).

One established center of turkey domestication was central Mexico, where the bones of Meleagris gallopavo — ancestors of the turkeys we eat today — have been found from as early as about 800 B.C.E. alongside ancient turkey pens and fossilized poop containing traces of corn, suggesting the birds were kept and fed.

Meleagris gallopavo bones have been found from about as early as 800 B.C.E., not 8250 B.C.E.

While there are many different breeds of turkeys, most of them belong to the same genus and species of bird, namely Meleagris gallopavo.