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The Mercedes Enterprise — Page 3
Mercedes, Texas 78570 Wednesday, December 10, 1986
986
Fauna and Flora
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The Rio Grande Wild Turkey is
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where hunting is strictly controlled,
native habitat is maintained and
inbreeding with domestic turkeys is
prevented.
Although domestic turkeys are
derived from Wild Turkeys there is
considerable difference in the
appearance of the two strains. A
Wild Turkey has a streamlined body
and caterpillars. An individual may
cover a four-square mile area in a
day’s foraging.
Before sunset, these birds begin
moving to their roost. Usually, this
is a tree growing in or near water.
Unlike Turkey Vultures which
prefer leaf-less trees, Wild Turkeys
nest in leafy trees. A flock may
spend 30 to 40 minutes in shifting
International Blvd. (FM 1015).
Organizers are continuing to
search for all members of the class.
Those who have not yet been
contacted are asked to call Van
Burkleo at 968-5391 or Mrs. Paula
Sauceda, 968-9758.
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and long legs whereas the domestic “
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As you might expect, domestic
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often do well just to walk around |
their pens at a sluggish pace.
Conversely, wild birds can run
like race horses. Some have been 1
clocked at 15 miles per hour. And,
while Wild Turkeys prefer running
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impressive distance for such a large
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Wild Turkeys eat a great variety
of foods. Specific food items fa2st1..111-*tESth
include: pecans, hickory nuts, 1
wild grapes, dogwood fruit, the
5.6 ., In the 1980 film Urban Cowboy, actor John Travolta rode a mechanical bull
seeds of various grasses, spiders, and danced to country music, launching a new interest in cowboy culture,
snails, grasshoppers, beetles, flies, (Museum of Modern Art/Film Stills Archive, New York)
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C. Wiley Post
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and raucous bickering before
settling down for the night. its most treasured icon—the cowboy, with Twitty that boots and pickup
In Texas, Wild Turkeys breed The urban cowboy was soon an attrac- tracks do not a cowboy make. The
from earlv February to August tive persona not only for working-class city dweller, they said, would soon
from early February to August. Texans, but for the nation as well. move on to a new fad while the real
Eggs have been found from the In the 1980s, it is actor John cowboy would keep on dancing coun-
middle of February to the latter Travolta on a mechanical bull, chug- try and western. Indeed, that seems to
part of July. A male will mate with ging a longneck beer, or ramrod- be what happened to the craze, though
several females - in fact as many straight as he holds his partner in a the commercial success of cowboy
as he can attract! Texas two-step, who symbolizes the music and paraphernalia continues.;
Males don’t actually defend modern urban cowboy. The “Gilley- Perhaps part of the popularity of the
territories rather thev ear trv to rats" who still hang out in the bar urban cowboy was rooted in ambiva-
territories, rather they simply try to where the motion picture Urban Cow- lence toward the modern mechanical
drive away other males from boy was filmed have mixed emotions and technological age. The cowboy,
wherever they happen to be. The about this now-pervasive image—but a knight on horseback, was seen as his
male displays with great vigor to few doubt the accuracy of the movie’s kind always has been: free, dominant,
attract females. He fluffs his stereotypes. in charge of his life. His ancestors
feathers, fans his tail feathers, and Urban cowboys emerged in Amer- might have worked for wages, lived
struts and gobbles. These actions, ican cities in the 1970s as rural youth in bunk houses, and fixed fences, yet
. ... took their music, dance, dress, pick- he seemed to be free, singing Don t
accompanied with the swollen ups and values to the metropolis in Fence Me In," for instance. The city
wattles, convey a striking image to search of a better future than life in the dweller who spent days at a desk or in
anyone so fortunate to have country seemed to offer, folklorist a factory didn’t feel as free.
observed it. Presumably the effect Beverly Stoeltje says. Unlike pre- So at Gilley’s in Houston, or at
is even more impressive to a female vious generations, this one did not Billy Bob s in Fort Worth, city folks
Wild Turkey disappear into the city, but altered the 1 donned their duds and climbed on the
The sexes remain naired onlv face of the city instead. mechanical bull, which folklorist
_ Sel re 1 PE . , . y The fascination with western ways Stoeltje suggests is a powerful symbol
briefly before the female isolates developed at least in part because the combining the challenge of the Old
herself to tend to her clutch. Clutch cities themselves, rocked by a genera- West with the newer contest of man
size ranges from eight to 26 eggs, tion of dissent and protest, welcomed versus machine.
but the usual number is 11 or 12. the traditional values and slower pace As usual, modern Americans con-
Occasionally, two hens will take of rural America. Country music fronted their problems in disguise,
..., swept the nation; C&W nightclubs Stoeltje says. In this case the machine
turns incubating a common nest. PR® - .1-j J
. : became chic; and rural dress, espe- was disguised as an animal, a bucking
Nests may be place in swampy cially cowboy hats, shirts, boots and bull. In a kind of metaphor, modern'
bottomlands, on dry slopes,or in buckles,set fashion trends. The Lone men and women, using the popular
woodlands. They are well concealed Star Cafe, opened smack in the mid- cowboy image, engaged in competi-
in thickets or other such dense die of downtown Manhattan, was an tion with technology, employing an
undergrowths in a hollow in the overnight success, introducing pro- image from nature as a front.
ground that is lined with leaves, gressive country and western music, But the novelty of it soon faded and
straw or erass ‘ Lone Star and Shiner beer, chili tacos most of the big-city interest in cowboy
’ and guacamole to the world. West culture waned, making way for new
Gobblers (i.e. males) are Texan Sam Lewis made a fortune fads, from punk to pastels. Once
aggressive towards other males exporting jalapeno lollipops and brass again, the honkytonks are left to the
until late summer. Then in the fall armadillos. cowboys and their blue-collar com-
and winter they lose their The stampeding masquerade of panions.
aggressiveness towards other males cowboys and cowgirls flattered some
a and irked others on the real, though This Texas Sesquicentennial series is
same time several hens each with diminishing frontier. In the words of courtesy of The Texas Committee for
timer several ’ . a Conway Twitty song, “Don’t call the Humanities, The Shell Companies
her own brood of young, gather in him a cowboy untjj you’ve seen him Foundation, Inc., and this news-
other flocks. ride.” The minority of Americans paper. © Texas Committee for the
Wise habitat management is the who did still live in the rural West, Humanities, 1985.
key to the continued well-being of '------------------------------------— ——-------—
Wild Turkeys. Restocking in areas Cluce E 157 omnunle 2
where formerly damaged habitats uss QT 91 organizes reunion
have been restored may help to An organizational meeting for a
increase the current range and 30-year reunion of ^ Mercedes
numbers of Wild Turkeys.. High School Class of 1957 is
110 scheduled for this Sunday, say class
viTation spokesmen.
, - Meeting time is 2 p.m. at the
TO Te lows hip office of Roger Van Burkelo at 555
meeting told
Area women, including winter
visitors, are invited to a meeting of
the Women’s Fellowship (the future
Mid-Valley Aglow organization)
planned for December 13 at the
Mercedes Rodeway Inn.
Mrs. Mary Primm will be the
guest speaker, talking on “The
Difference Between Religion and a
Personnal Relationship with Jesus
Christ.’’
Wild Turkeys (Meleagris gallo- has been adversely affected by
pano) were once common over most clearing the woods, over-hunting,
of the eastern three-quarters of poultry diseases and inbreeding
Texas, but now these birds have with domestic turkeys. However,
been largely eliminated from much native birds are still fairly common
of their original range, on the Edwards Plateau and in the
In most places the Wild Turkey South Texas brush country.
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The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 50, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 10, 1986, newspaper, December 10, 1986; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1614096/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.