This animation, based on CT scans, shows how the snood is connected to the blood vessels that allow it to engorge. In a process that should sound at least somewhat familiar, the snood fills with blood, growing in size, and turning rather red.
#Whats a snood skin#
“You know that weird, floppy bit of skin that hangs off the face of a male turkey? That’s called a snood, and it’s used to impress lady turkeys. For example, check out Improbable Research’s piece on “snood erections in wild turkey” which embedded our video as a “bonus.” But the main boost came from Maggie Koerth-Baker over at Boing Boing who embedded our video in her piece on “Thanksgiving science”: Of course our Thanksgiving turkey got some help from the blogosphere. You gotta believe that at least some dinosaurs had things like wattles, combs, and snoods. The goal is to discover bony signatures for these vascular devices that will allow us to discover their presence in extinct species like dinosaurs. We have a manuscript on head vasculature in turkeys and pheasants that is almost ready to be submitted, so stay tuned for more details. This injection is the work of WitmerLab doctoral student William Porter, who is studying the vascular supply of regions of the heads of archosaurs that may play a role in thermal physiology and/or behavioral display…and the turkey’s snood appears to fit the bill (as it were) on both counts.
Of course, what made this video so interesting was the vascular injection of the snood, the fleshy appendage that hangs down across the bill. Only about 10-12% of all YouTube videos get more than 5000 views ( ref.), so our Thanksgiving turkey has fared better than about 90% of all YouTube videos. In a world where Sittin’ on tha Toilet gets over 12 million views, getting 6000 views on a video doesn’t sound like much.
In the succeeding four days, the video got over 6300 views, a 23-fold increase over the previous 365 days! Without giving it much thought, this year on the day before Thanksgiving I posted the YouTube vid to my Facebook wall and to the WitmerLab Facebook page. It got a polite response from friends, racking up, ahem, just 266 views. Last year we came up with a CT-scan-based animation of a turkey head which showed the blood vessels we then tagged the end with “Happy Thanksgiving from the Witmer Lab,” and put it up on our YouTube channel. You may find just the perfect one you and your Dog have been hunting for.I had no intention of doing another “holiday post” so soon after our Halloween post, but there’s been surprising interest in one of our YouTube videos. Stop by our website, our eBay Store or our Etsy Shop and sniff around.
#Whats a snood full#
We make a full line of Snoods from casual to glitzy, in five sizes or your own custom sizing. They come in all fabrics and styles from basic utilitarian cotton to all manner of show ring glitz. There's nothing worse than after spending all that pre-show grooming time, to glance at your dog seconds before ring time and discover he's filthy again.Īs functional as a snood can be, you gotta have a little fun with them too.
Show people love them for keeping their dog's ears clean before a trip around the ring. You'd be surprised how much stuff a Basset's ground dragging ears can pick up along the way. Pet and show dog owners alike will attest to the ear and face clean up time they save, after a meal or after a walk in the woods. But, in actuality, they're an invaluable tool for the owners of long eared and long haired dogs, like Basset Hounds, Bloodhounds, Afghans, Cocker Spaniels and even Shih Tzus and Lhasa Apsos. If you've never seen a snood, at first glance they probably look like something silly invented for the sole purpose of removing any shred of dignity a dog may possess.
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