It seems straight out of a Disney movie—wild animals from two different species becoming inseparable friends. And yet that’s what happened at the Raven Ridge Wildlife Center in southeastern Pennsylvania, between a turkey and a mourning dove.
Last spring, the wildlife center received two likely orphaned turkey poults (young turkeys). To calm them down, the team put them with a feather-duster as a stand-in mother turkey. Because turkey poults are easily stressed, they are difficult to rehabilitate, according to a Facebook post by the wildlife center. In fact, one of them didn’t make it.
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