The party is over for at least one wild campus denizen at Ottawa’s Carleton University.
The Carleton turkey has been captured.
For the past couple of weeks a male wild turkey has been a regular visitor on campus and the subject of countless tweets, pics and posts by students.
He even had his own Facebook page.
“I’ve actually never seen a wild turkey that close ever,” says Alyssa Bow. “So it was really shocking to see it on campus.”
“This is the first time I’ve actually seen a turkey on campus,” adds Afnan Shaikh, “We see, like, beavers and other stuff, squirrels and everything.”
No one knows why the turkey decided to hang out at the school, especially since Carleton is actually the home of the Ravens.
But all the attention was eventually enough to ruffle some feathers. “I felt bad for the turkey just because it was so confused and overwhelmed from a big crowd of people being around it,” says Chris Brunet.
Large birds with sharp claws, wild turkeys can become aggressive – particularily males during mating season. So it was decided this feathery freshman had to go. Animal control experts captured the turkey and transported it to a more suitable habitat.
“It’s a good thing to take him to the wild,” says Eduardo Beggs. “I guess that’s where he belongs.”
Just like his fellow campus residents, hopefully he’ll one day look back fondly on his university days.
