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Article: Turkeys run amok at Berkeley lab

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January 15, 2008
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They're breaking windows, defecating on public property and intimidating workers. Now scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are calling them a public safety problem.

Who would have thought a bunch of wild turkeys could cause so much trouble?

At least 60 of them that are reproducing like rabbits have officials in the Berkeley hills lab worried someone is going to get hurt.

The hubbub started last spring when the growing group of gobblers got bigger. At the time, they were a cute sideshow, occasionally interrupting a meeting with loud gobbles and chasing people on Segway transporters that are used to get around the hilly campus.

Then the real trouble started. In June, a wayward ...

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