Above all, there’s our own curiosity to discover what Rankin will serve up next: a bingo game, a rampaging wild turkey, a stroll through Quebec’s Beige District, an abandoned mall, a funeral next to a freeway, or two stubborn schoolgirls hellbent on chipping frozen cash from the ice.

Drop some acid, down five shots of Wild Turkey, hit the bong, down some edibles and shrooms then snort some Adderall and cocaine to top it off – then it might make sense.

He was a political grifter with a southern smile, a soft handshake and in his later years a warbling cadence and voice that reminded one of a wild turkey with distemper wandering through the woods, lost, proud and very vocal.

The findings shed new light on how climate change may affect wild turkey populations.

"We wanted to know how weather influences nesting success right now, and then use that data to assess how climate change may influence wild turkey populations in the future," says Wesley Boone, corresponding author of a paper on the work and a postdoctoral researcher at North Carolina State University.