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The Australian Brushturkey is also commonly called the “Scrub Turkey”, or just “Bush Turkey”. They live in Australian, all the way down the Eastern Coast. During the mating season, a dominant Australian Brushturkey builds or takes residence in a large incubation mound. While female Australian Brushturkeys “shop around”, checking the quality of mounds, males stay at their mound, defending it from other males, who want to take over the mound. Good mounds will have several female Australian Brushturkeys laying eggs, while poor mounds will have one, or none. The gender ratio of a clutch of Australian Brushturkeys is decided by temperature, not because embryos can switch genders, but because the mortality rates of the different genders changes by temperature. It’s possible the Australian Brushturkey is aware of this, and change the temperature to intentionally affect the gender of their chicks. Speaking of Australian Brushturkey chicks, they are just the cutest ever.