Figure 4.

Femur length and cross‐sectional area for 14‐week‐old wild and domestic turkeys, from CT scans. (a) The wild turkey femur is from individual #48 (top) who weighed 3.49 kg and had a femur length of 10.6 cm. The domestic turkey femur (bottom) is from individual #8, who weighed 10.17 kg and had a femur length of 12.5 cm. The CT scans are left aligned to show relative lengths. The bone in the epiphyses of the domestic turkey femur appears to be less dense, as indicated by the holes near the distal ends of the bone. (b) Femur cross sections of the bones depicted in A, from a midpoint along the length of the bones (midshaft), approximated by the yellow dashed line. The domestic turkey femur is <20% longer than the wild turkey femur, but nearly twice the diameter