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Text: Vientiane hardcore
Edited by Vientiane hardcore
«——【Preamble】】 ——»
In December 2022, Guangdong Jingshi Natural Animal Documentary released a news of a peacock courting a hen, which made a lot of netizens laugh.
Many people ridicule that this peacock may have been single for many years, and even his eyes are not good, and he has to try it when he sees a species that looks like a female peacock.
As we all know, the male peacock is a very beautiful bird, and will open the screen courtship to the female peacock during the breeding period.
Female peacocks generally choose the peacock with the most eye spots on their tail as their mate, and these eye spots will increase as the male peacock grows, so the female peacock prefers the male peacock with rich life experience.
The male peacock looks very gorgeous and dazzling when it opens the screen, but the female peacock is different, it does not have a beautiful tail, so at a glance, it looks gray-faced, only has green or blue feathers on the neck.
Although it doesn't look good, the female peacock's eyesight is still okay, and it can see some colors, such as blue and green on the tail of the male peacock, and some studies say that they can also see a purple color that the human eye can't recognize.
It is estimated that the male peacock looks like this in order to dazzle the female peacock and win the hearts of others.
But the hen apparently did not understand this wave at all, pecking at the ground for bugs, and occasionally raising her head to look at the peacock that was exuding male charm, and completely ignored it after seeing that the peacock was not attacking her.
At this time, the male peacock was obviously in a hurry, and he began to shake his wings and aim his fan-like tail at the feeding hen, and kept adjusting his posture as the hen moved, hoping to gain its favor.
But this wave of operations was fruitless after all, and I don't know if the male peacock will feel "sad", after all, the "carefully selected" object has not yet taken a fancy to it in the end.
In fact, this is not the first time that a peacock courting a chicken has happened, and it seems that there is not only one peacock with bad eyes.
And the character of each peacock does not seem to be very different, the peacock above jumped in a hurry when he found that the hen was unwilling to pay attention to himself, and the male peacock below is different, although the eyes of the people are good, but they still recognize the wrong object.
The color of peacocks is mostly gorgeous and shiny, so white peacocks are naturally not very popular among female peacocks, because female peacocks will find their color too monotonous, so they are not attractive.
But this white color is still very beautiful in the eyes of humans, and the formation of this color is the result of genetic mutations, and has nothing to do with albinism, so the white peacock is a subspecies of the blue peacock, and it is said that only one white peacock will appear in a thousand blue peacocks.
Because it is often "coldly received" in the blind date market, it is difficult for the white peacock to reproduce on its own, but after artificial intervention, the white peacock population can already sustain its own numbers.
After touching the nail many times, the white peacock probably understood a truth: people really don't like us in color, so they simply find a female of the same color to court.
But it seems that it is even more difficult to find the female accurately, so on this day a male white peacock directly found a white hen and opened its pure white tail feathers to it.
Obviously, the hen also looked incomprehensible, just lowered her head and silently pecked at the food on the ground, without putting the "flowery" peacock in front of her in her eyes.
The male peacock sees that the hen does not seem to be interested in her courtship, so he takes his own small steps and shakes his tail to make sure that he is standing directly in front of the hen and does his best to attract the hen's attention.
The hen looked up, lowered her head and went to graze, it seemed that she was not interested in the "behemoth" in front of her, if it had not been for the bite in front of her, it was estimated that she would have felt bored and walked away.
This wave of hen operation is estimated to make the self-esteem of the male peacocks who are not good at all walks of life have been discouraged, after all, although the courtship is wishful thinking, but for the male peacock, this is a real "female peacock".
However, some people say that male peacocks may not open their screens to hens for courtship, because their screen-opening behavior has many meanings.
«—[Under what circumstances will the peacock open the screen?·]—»
Some scientists believe that the male peacock may also be open to scare off the enemy, because when animals survive in the wild, they will think that the size of the body represents the strength of the strength, so many animals will make themselves look "bigger" when they encounter threats.
After the male peacock unfolds its tail feathers, it looks undoubtedly several times larger, and its tail has a lot of eye-like patterns, so it will scare off some unknown animals.
And some people found in the wild that when a peacock encountered a wolf, it scared the wolf by opening the screen, and it also bought time for itself to escape.
But if the male peacock opens the screen to the hen to scare it away, it is obviously not very suitable, because the hen is much smaller than the peacock, and the hen is not a threat to the peacock, and it does not even bother to deal with the male peacock.
In addition, the researchers believe that there is another reason for the peacocks to open the screen, that is, they will demonstrate with each other.
In order to compete for the right to mate in nature, males usually tend to look at each other unpleasantly, and they have to "fight" when they meet, and peacocks are no exception.
When entering the breeding season, the male peacock will mark a territory for himself, and other male peacocks are not allowed to enter this territory, and if any of them enter his territory without eyesight, they will be violently driven away.
Male peacocks make uncomfortable chirps and open their tail feathers to swear sovereignty, a behavior that is not only seen among male peacocks, but also when they encounter golden pheasants and pheasants.
It seems that the male peacock opens the screen to the hen and probably has nothing to do with this reason, after all, the hen is not its competitor, and the hen is not good-looking, and there is nothing to compare.
In the end, the only reason left is "courtship", and it seems that no matter what, there is no way to cover up the problem of some male peacocks' "bad eyes".
So how do peacocks live after successful courtship?
«—[Peacock's "Married Life"·]—»
Peacocks generally practice "monogamy", although there are also varieties that are polygamous.
After the two peacocks look at each other, they will have a "love carnival", and the female peacock will lay about 30 eggs after about half a month of gestation.
The 30 eggs will not break after about a month of incubation, during which the male and female peacocks will take turns to incubate the eggs, so as to ensure the safety of these eggs to the greatest extent.
For the first few days after the baby peacock breaks its shell, it lives on the yolk left by its mother, which contains all the nutrients that the baby peacock needs.
But in fact, the baby peacock can eat one day after birth, and then the peacock mother will find some small insects to feed the child, and these small insects are said to have a good relieving effect on the possible loss of appetite of the little peacock.
Generally speaking, the baby peacock can reach maturity after 3 months to 6 months after birth, and can reproduce new offspring, of course, this has a lot to do with the environment in which it lives.
There are also many different types of peacocks, among them, the green peacock belongs to the national first-class protected animal, because the number of this peacock is very small, basically it is distributed in Southeast Asia, and in the mainland it lives in parts of Yunnan.
The blue peafowl living in India is not a protected animal, because they are bred by many countries, and the captive breeding technology is more skilled, so the number is relatively controllable.
Reference:
Guangdong Jingshi Natural Animal Documentary "Peacock opens the screen to a hen, don't hold back and don't laugh in the next second, the camera records the whole process"2022-12-6
https://haokan.baidu.com/v?vid=17683086629782042492&collection_id=
China Science Expo "The Heart of Beauty and the "Male" are All Male Peacocks Behind the Opening of the Screen!", 2018-9-21
https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1612181730386383672&wfr=spider&for=pc