Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
The North American wild turkey any
of Mexico are the only two species of wild turkey extant in the world today. Taxonomically,
they belong to the order Galliformes, family Phasianidae, and subfamily Meleagridinae [1]. Six
geographic subspecies of the North American wild turkey have recognized The eastern
subspecies is roughly the eastern half of the United States and parts of
southeastern Canada. The Florida wild turkey or Osceola subspecies inhabits the
Florida peninsula south of the Suwannee River. In the western half of the continent, the
Merriam’s wild turkey occupies much of the intermountain West, and the Rio
Grande turkey is found primarily in the plains states of the central United
States and the northeastern Mexican states. The fifth subspecies, the Gould’s wild turkey
mexicana), is found in southeastern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, and in the Sierra Madre
Occidental Mountains of Mexico.
The sixth subspecies, the Mexican wild turkey is now thought to be extinct. It is
from this subspecies that all domestic turkeys are believed to descend; a livestock species that in
2012 provided nearly 5.75 billion kg of meat to markets worldwide
