Friday, June 29, 2012

Peacock

Ever heard the joke about the farmers who split land and such evenly but one day a peacock sits in the middle of their fence and lays an egg? Who keeps the egg, no one does because peacocks don't lay eggs! Only peahens can lay eggs. And the babies are called peachicks. Most peahens are easily told apart from peacocks by their awful coloring. Males have extravagant colors in their feathers, and females have brown feathers.

Only green peahens look exactly like the male except for the size. Green peahens have the color (Score one for female color-deprived animals) of the males. They even have a beautiful tail fan as well. Tail fans have been thought of as a mating sign from male to female. To get the female's attention, the peacock will strut around opening and closing his feathers.

Peacocks are very strange animals. They will sleep in trees (As forests are their natural habitat,) and nest on the ground. During mating season, they will usually give off strange, high-pitched calls to one another. Peacocks are also omnivorous, and will eat almost anything from bugs to leaves to slop.

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