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Peacocks are just fancy turkeys (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

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