Fairly directly, they’re antimemetic for humans: weird enough birds that everyone looks at them and thinks “I can’t accept that these are from here, they must be from that weird place over there”
Carlos Scheidegger
In Engish, turkeys are named after the country Turkiye. In Turkiye, they're called "Hindi" named after India. In Hindi, they're sometimes called "Peru" named after...Peru. In Peru they're called "pavo" named after peacocks.
Peacocks don't have a word for turkeys.
