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Acrobats Against Wild Turkeys
The state of missouri now has too many wild turkeys! Worked out a clever deal. Every year Missouri trades some of it's extra turkeys to Kentucky in exchange for river otters. David Hamilton, a wildlife protection specialist with the Missouri Department of conservation says, "We want otter and Kentucky wants turkey. We've got plenty of turkey, and since Kentucky doesn't have surplus otter, they have to get them in Louisiana". This type of trading among states to preserve endangered wildlife has become common practice.

Although these playful acrobats are not on the federal list of endangered species, they have disappeared from many states (DiSilvestro 182). In 1976 residents of Missouri voted yes on a "conservation sales tax", and one of
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