RANDOLPH, Mass. (WHDH/AP) — A bizarre scene of a group of wild turkeys walking in a circle around a dead cat was caught on video by a Massachusetts man who perhaps best described it: an attempt to give the feline its 10th life.
Jonathan Davis came across the fowl play in the Boston suburb of Randolph Thursday. He posted a video on Twitter that he says was viewed a half million times by the late afternoon.
“It was a perfect circle. It almost looked like it was rehearsed,” Davis told 7News.
The recording shows what appears to be 17 turkeys circling the cat.
Davis said the sight is a complete mystery to him, especially because he’s never seen turkeys in the neighborhood before.
Dave Scarpitti is a wildlife biologist at the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. He suspects the turkeys were sizing up the threat of the cat and had no intention to make a meal out of it. He says turkeys prefer bird seed and vegetation.
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