shamlin

I have heard people talk before about how smart turkeys are. I am no wildlife biologist and I am open to other opinions. To me turkeys are a bird, just like a chicken, just like a duck. I think turkeys have a keen since of sight, and have very reactive predatory INSTINCTS, but that is all they are instincts. It seems to me that they dont have a thought process or the ability to reason, all their actions are driven by instincts. The cannot stand there and think there might be a hunter there I will walk this way. If they see you they run or fly, to me this is just instinct not smarts. If you are calling and hit a sour note and the bird never shows, or goes in the opposite direction does he know a hunter is close by or is it that because the sound you made fails to register as a hen and instinct does not tell him time to breed.Bass are harder to catch than catfish but does that make them smarter.

hoosierHUNTER76

um um i don't know

kdsberman

Yes they are smart or else we wouldnt have to "hunt" them.

huntnma

you'll find that answer , just spend time hunting them and you'll see how dumb they are, lol.....you'll be in for a shocker, lol....

kingvjack

The word for it is.... Paranoid...

superstrutter

They seem to be smart this season so far[:@].

gmil6184

I would agree with the poster at the top that they aren't "smart" but they have increadible senses and are extremely spooky. That's what makes them so tough, not smarts.

Tuco

I have seen them do some really smart things and some really dumb things, you just never know with them, that is why they are so much fun to hunt.

RIStrutStopper

Dumb bird, FANTASTIC survival instincts. I may have scored a new spot to bow hunt becausea fewToms trashed this guy's wife's newly waxed and shiney mini van. IMHO, anything that wants to kill its own reflection in a car door doesn't qualify as smart.

vmartin

i don't think they are smart, i also don't think any one breed is any smarter than the other. some are just pressured more, pressured birds and older birds are the wise ones. i think just as stated above that they are very spooky and they have very keen sences. they do however remember being chased or shot at in a spot and will be more apt to be carefularound that spot, but i often see the same bird come back to that same spot time and time again after we shoot his buddies.