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Wild turkeys provide food for their predators and impact populations of the plants whose seeds and nuts they eat.
Wild turkeys also host at least 60 different species of parasites. These include 9 Myxozoa, 11 trematodes, 10 Cestoda, 1 Acanthocephala, 17 Nematoda and 12 Arthropoda. (Eaton, 1992)
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