I always crack up when I get to the line about turkeys being “gentle, intelligent” birds. The live turkeys I’ve seen were some of the most ornery cusses in the whole barnyard. Don’t know about intelligent, as I never got around to giving them an IQ test. :-)
We had turkeys when I was a child...and I was taught they were so dumb, they would stand out in the rain, and drown....
Turkeys would eat you if they could.