Love-Struck Peacock Saves a Turkey From the Dinner Table

[Omaha Steve]

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by TreeHugger November 22, 2012 3:00 pm

Written by Stephen Messenger

While the holiday season is surely a time to bask in the warm affections of friends and family, for the millions of turkeys predestined for the dinner table, conditions are bound to be a bit more oven-like. Short of a Presidential pardon, the future must seem downright bleak among these fat feathered creatures. But for one turkey in particular, salvation has arisen from the most unlikely of places — her love-affair with a peacock.

Not too long ago, Miss McFeathers had seemingly unbreakable plans for Christmas dinner — as the main course. Lucky for her, things changed when she entered into a rare interspecies romance.

As a young poultry bird raised on Scotland’s Hopetoun farm, Miss McFeathers was being bullied by the other turkeys in her flock, so farmers there decided to let her roam separate from the others. It was then, for whatever reason, she caught the attention of the farm’s stately peacock, named Pendragon, who “immediately took a shine to her.”

According to those working on the farm, the feeling must have been mutual because that interspecies pair have been an item ever since.

FULL story at link.