Article 6E5F7 An arrow to the chest? This wild turkey is unruffled

An arrow to the chest? This wild turkey is unruffled

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Maanvi Singh in Oakland
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Residents of Carmel, California, have named the bird Cupid, and are monitoring its health, which seems unaffected by the injury

For months, a wild turkey has been spotted roaming the rolling hills of Carmel, California, with a 30in arrow sticking through her chest. It hasn't seemed to faze her.

Local residents first began spotting the bird, who they're calling Cupid, last winter. Since then, she has been photographed and filmed roosting in trees, foraging for grubs and evading predators and generally going about her business as if she hadn't been impaled.

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