Aldo Leopold and his buddies would have enjoyed the moment. There I was, napping on a bench made of stone in the University of Wisconsin Arboretum when the pterodactyls approached. They surrounded me, but feigned disinterest and instead plucked last year’s crabapples from the Arboretum’s vast selection.
Was this a dream? No, it was turkeys, and how pleased the lovers of diversity who created the Arboretum would have been to see these giant birds enjoying a late afternoon fruit snack.