Other Animal (But Non-Buggy) Crackers

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It'd be nice to have some kind of source for this.

Debunked: [Domesticated] turkeys are so dumb, they'll drown if they're out in the rain.

Domestic turkeys are pretty dumb, and just about everyone who has raised them has stories to prove it. The idea that they'll drown if left out in the rain is probably a case of colorful hyperbole.

It may be rooted in real behavior; Cecil Adams (More of the Straight Dope) reports that mother wild turkeys will hustle their brood of chicks into shelter from the rain, but because the chicks are poorly insulated, not because they'll drown---but that many domesticated turkeys have lost this behavior, so the chicks are prone to die of exposure when it rains.