Animal Rituals: The Glorious Regal Sunrise Mating Dance of the Wild Turkeys

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Animal Rituals

The Glorious Regal Sunrise Mating Dance of the Wild Turkeys

As humans, sometimes we find ourselves thinking that we are the only ones who have rituals. Yet if we spend enough time in nature, observing closely, we may have the opportunity to witness the rituals of other animals. In this beautiful video, we witness a sunrise mating ritual in a colony of wild turkeys.

Related Practices:

Related to Bird Language, Tracking, Sit Spot, Building Ropes, Study the Pattern Language of Nature, Gratitude Practices, and other core routines of deep nature connection. Related to our film The Original Language: How to Talk to Everything. Related to Owl Ears. To Soften the Gaze. On this website, although we don't touch deeply into this specifically, our conversation with Ilarion Merculieff, called the Unangan Way, relates to many of these themes.

Who taught us this?

We don't actually know how to do the dance, but we witnessed it at sunrise on a March morning in Northern California, courtesy of a band of local wild turkeys.

Who taught us this?

We don't actually know how to do the dance, but we witnessed it at sunrise on a March morning in Northern California, courtesy of a band of local wild turkeys.

Photography: Stein Egil Liland | Licensed from Pexels.com, used with permission.