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Peacocks are just fancy turkeys (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's worse, they're more like fancy chickens:

Source for the cladogram. Check the arrows: Meleagris = turkey, Gallus = chicken, Pavo = peacocks. Pavo x Gallus distance is ~27 million years, Pavo x Meleagris is 30.

ARISE PEACOCK!

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