Among the birds of the world, it is usually the males who have the brightest feathers and the females who are the most drab, ...

However, the female peacock seemed completely uninterested in the “mating show.” She kept her head down, pecking at the ground for food, as if to say, “You do your display, ...

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. A version of this story ran ...