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To attract female turkeys. Believe it or not Tom Turkeys look the way they do because of evolution, manipulated by the sexual preferences of female turkeys. They prefer the really ugly Toms so by sexual selection the Toms just kept getting uglier and uglier.

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The only turkeys that have wattles are the males. The wattle is used by the males to court the females.

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They have a flap of skin called a wattle that hangs down by their chin. It is basically a beard.

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BECAUSE YOU CAN MARK THE MALE ONES

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so it doesn't wattle da wong way

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no they do not

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