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Peacocks Available – Zimbabwe
๐ฆ MORE ABOUT PEAFOWLS ๐ฆ
๐ทWith its massive tail and iridescent colors, this bird has long fascinated its human observersโand people are still learning its secrets.
๐ทFor example, a study recently published in The “๐ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ซ๐๐ฉ ๐๐ ๐๐ซ๐ฆ๐ช๐๐ฉ ๐ ๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฏ” says that when a peacock fans its ornamented train for the ladies during mating season, its feathers quiver, emitting a low-frequency sound inaudible to human ears.
๐ท Depending on whether they want to attract females from far away or up close, they can change the sound by shaking different parts of their feathers.
๐ทTheyโre not the only animals that create infrasonic sounds. Elephants produce them with their vocal cords, most likely to communicate over long distances.
๐ท Here are a few other interesting facts about these impressive birds.
๐ฆ 10 FACTS ABOUT PEAFOWLS ๐ฆ
1๏ธโฃ Only the males are actually โpeacocks.โ
The collective term for these birds is โpeafowl.โ The males are โpeacocksโ and the females are โpeahens.โ The babies are called โpeachicks.โ
2๏ธโฃ A family of peafowl is called a โbevy.โ
A group of the birds is also sometimes called an โostentation,โ a โmuster,โ or even a โparty.โ
3๏ธโฃ Theyโre not born with their fancy tail feathers.
The male peachicks donโt start growing their showy trains until about age three.
In fact, itโs hard to tell the sex of a peachick because theyโre nearly identical to their mothers.
At around six months, the males will begin to change color.
4๏ธโฃ They donโt have to be killed for their feathers.
Luckily, the peacocks shed their train every year after mating season, so the feathers can be gathered and sold without the birds coming to any harm.
The average lifespan of a peacock in the wild is about 20 years.
5๏ธโฃ They can fly, despite their massive trains.
A peacockโs tail feathers can reach up to six feet long and make up about 60 percent of its body length. Despite these odd proportions, the bird flies just fine, if not very far.
6๏ธโฃ There are all-white peafowl.
Thanks to selective breeding, itโs common for captive peafowl to buck the iridescent trend for all white feathers.
This is called leucism, and itโs due to a genetic mutation that causes loss of pigmentation.
These peafowl are often mistaken for being albino, but instead of having red eyes, animals with leucism retain their normal eye color.
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7๏ธโฃ Peacocks were a delicacy in medieval times.
The birds were plucked, roasted and then re-dressed in their feathers to appear in their original live state on the dinner table.
๐ท Hereโs the presentation instructions from one recipe:
โwynde the skyn wit the fethurs and the taile abought the body, And serue him forthe as he were a-liveโ
The birds may have looked beautiful, but they reportedly tasted terrible. โIt was tough and coarse, and was criticized by physicians for being difficult to digest and for generating bad humors,โ writes ๐๐ข๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ ๐๐ข๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฐ ๐๐ก๐๐ช๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ซ in her book ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ก ๐ฆ๐ซ ๐๐ฆ๐ก๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐๐ฉ ๐๐ฆ๐ช๐ข๐ฐ
8๏ธโฃ They can fake it.
These birds arenโt just nice to look at, theyโre also clever, according to one recent study.
When peacocks mate with peahens, they give out a loud โcopulatory call.โ Canadian researchers โ๐ฌ๐ฐ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ซ ๐๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ซ ๐๐ฌ๐ซ๐ฑ๐ค๐ฌ๐ช๐ข๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ข discovered that the birds can โfakeโ this call to attract more females.
๐ทAs the ๐ ๐ โญ’๐ฐ ๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ ๐๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฐ put it, โBy pretending they are mating when they are not, the birds could convince females they are more sexually activeโand therefore genetically fitterโthan their rivals.โ
In fact, one-third of the calls heard by researchers were fake, and the birds that made them scored the most hookup
- They can fake it.
These birds arenโt just nice to look at, theyโre also clever, according to one recent study.
When peacocks mate with peahens, they give out a loud โcopulatory call.โ Canadian researchers Roslyn Dakin and Robert Montgomerie discovered that the birds can โfakeโ this call to attract more females. As the BBCโs Ella Davies put it, โBy pretending they are mating when they are not, the birds could convince females they are more sexually activeโand therefore genetically fitterโthan their rivals.โ
In fact, one-third of the calls heard by researchers were fake, and the birds that made them scored the most hookups.
Sneaky, sneaky.
9๏ธโฃ Their feathers are covered in tiny crystal-like structures.
What makes the peacockโs feathers so brilliant? Microscopic โcrystal-like structuresโ that reflect different wavelengths of light depending on how theyโre spaced, resulting in bright fluorescent colors.
Hummingbirds and shimmering butterflies have mastered a similar visual effect on their own wings.
๐ A peacock’s crest acts as a sensor for mating
A female peacock has special sensors in her crest that allow her to feel the vibrations of mate who may be located far away.
According to ๐๐ฅ๐ข ๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ , the feathers are “tuned to vibrate at the exact same frequencies at which a displaying peacock rattles his tail.”
Whenever a male peacock fans his tail, he shakes it at a rate of 26 times a second, creating a pressure-wave that literally rattles the female’s head for attention.
DID YOU KNOW
Early Christian mosaics and paintings usually portray peacocks as the โeyesโ where their tail plumage represented the Church or the all-seeing God. In primitive Persia, peacocks were allied with the Tree of Life.
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