The Giant Nest of the Australian Brush-Turkey | Wild Animals - Planet Doc Full Documentaries
The australian turkey has to build a giant nest, a place for his females to lay their eggs. SUBSCRIBE! http://bit.ly/PlanetDoc Full Documentaries every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday! When Australia separated from Gondwana ages ago, its animal species were isolated from the rest of the world. Not quite all of them, though. Birds could still fly between the land masses. Giant birds called moas developed in these jungles where food was abundant and there were few predators. Some of them weighed as much as 550 pounds. This is a distant relative of those birds. The talegalla is polygamous and has to provide a place for his females to lay their eggs. He’s building a very unusual nest. The turkey gathers together leaves and other plant materials to build his love nest The turkey gathers all the leaves he can. Then a fungus grows among them and they decompose. This process of decomposition produces heat, which turns the nest into a real incubator. The incubator always has to be between 30 and 35 degrees Celsius. To take the temperature of the nest the turkey has a thermometer in his tongue or in his beak we don´t really know. SUBSCRIBE | http://bit.ly/PlanetDoc FULL DOCUMENTARIES | http://bit.ly/Full-Docs CULTURE DOCUMENTARIES | http://bit.ly/CultureDocs FACEBOOK | http://bit.ly/FBPDoc TWITTER | http://bit.ly/TwPDoc TUMBLR | http://bit.ly/TbPlDoc
