Experience: I lived as a wild turkey

My aim was to become indistinguishable from the rest of the flock, but I felt they saw me as the village idiotI started adopting young animals while still a child myself. Many were orphaned newborns, meaning I mothered a variety of creatures – raccoon, squirrel, fox, bobcat, whatever came my way. I felt the animals preferred my company to that of members of their own species, and many even slept in my bed. At the time, I thought I’d discovered a sort of magic; but after years of stud