The peahen under the microscope

[Dany12]

An interesting experience:



http://blogs.scientificamerican.com...hot-whats-not-from-the-peahens-point-of-view/

The findings are for pened peacocks .... what happens when peahens are in the presence of several cocks 2 - 3 - 6 years in free ranching?

 

[casportpony]

Very interesting, thanks for sharing that link!

-Kathy

 

[3BirdGirlz]

Neat!

 

[MinxFox]

I like reading all the studies on what peahens are attracted to in a peacock. I think overall, all of the studies I have read do show that they are definitely attracted to the males with longer trains because of course normally that means it is an older peacock and he probably has good genes if he has lasted for several years. I like it that in this article they mentioned the dancing too.

 

[Dany12]

If we tried another experiment!
Three peahens and three peacocks.
Peahen:1 White, 1 Cameo, 1 Opal - in need of male, they laid the day before yesterday, in the middle of spawning, .... etc!
Peacock: 1 Indian Blue, 1 Cameo, 1 Opal.
Peacocks are from the same quality, 4/5 years, full plumage, beautiful feathers head, displaying crazy .... all day long !

The three peahen have a camera.


Question :
What male is the most watched?
With which peacock .... the peahen want to go further? ......

And the winner .... is ! For me the Indian Bleu .... Others are invisible! ..... They will all choose the Blue!

 

[casportpony]

Very cool!

-Kathy