Sentences with word «gallopavo»

Correction, 9 August: This item has been changed to reflect the dating of early Meleagris gallopavo bones.

It is difficult to distinguish between domesticated and wild M. gallopavo genetically, but she says that the presence of an adult male, female, and juvenile indicates husbandry.

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

The modern domesticated turkey descends from the wild turkey (meleagris gallopavo), one of the two species of turkey (genus meleagris); however, in the past the ocellated turkey (meleagris ocellata) was also domesticated.

«I think they did a good job of making the case that the Meleagris gallopavo birds at El Mirador were derived from Central Mexico and were probably being confined,» says William Lipe, an archaeologist at Washington State University, Pullman.

Only one of the bones yielded enough replicable DNA for analysis, but it was an exact match with M. gallopavo, and not the ocellated turkey.

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.

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).

After reexamining the bones, Thornton collaborated with archaeologist Camilla Speller, an expert in ancient DNA analysis at the University of Calgary in Canada, to confirm that the bones belonged to M. gallopavo.

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

Park Relative: Wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) Well, actually, the domesticated turkey and wild turkey are the same species — and none of the subspecies are native to our parks.