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Article: Fowl out of control at Berkeley lab
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- January 16, 2008
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BERKELEY
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. Last ...