An unclaimed male peacock has become the talk of a rural community, having ravaged vegetable patches and woken neighbours ...

Long-time residents say at least a dozen bright-blue Indian peacocks have wandered Errol Heights in Southeast Portland since ...

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 ...

2. Peacocks Take Years to Develop Colorful Tail Feathers . When they hatch and for months afterward, male and female peachicks look identical. Males don't start to develop color until they are ...

The male peacock jumping spider must dance for his life. In order to woo a female and avoid being eaten, he performs an intricate dance using a brilliantly colored fan attached to his abdomen.

Snip one male peacock, the thinking goes, and it will no longer be able to fertilize the eggs of the female peahens in its harem. “Peacocks are bona fide polygamists,” said Dr. Don J. Harris ...