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Meet the people trying to help. Animals Whales eat three times more than previously thought. They will need to perform the displays using the beautiful tail and feathers to attract a mating partner. Survival — It is important for the females to be able to avoid predators since they are not good at defending themselves against attacks. They need to be alive in order to take care of their chicks. Therefore the females have colors that help them to be able to blend with the ground and be able to remain invisible to the predators.
The males have brighter colors to be easily visible by the predators so that they can defend the females by attracting and fighting the predators. Territory — The males also fight over the territory, and the most beautiful peacock, with the support of the many males it attracts, will be able to control territory. Whenever the peacocks feel threatened, they can fan out the tail as a sign of intimidating the attacker, and the bigger the display, the more intimidating it will be. First, you need to understand that a male peafowl is a peacock while a female peafowl is called the Peahen.
This, therefore, means that if you are asking whether the white peacock is male, then the answer is yes, but if you are asking if all the white peafowls are males, then the answer is a no.
White peafowls are just like any other but with a color mutation. They are as beautiful as the multicolored ones, and they have both males and females.
It is important to note that a white peafowl is not an albino. They have no red eyes, and they do not suffer any effects or conditions that are associated with albinos. The white color is caused by a missing color pigment. They can be found in the wild though in rare cases, but they are mostly found in private breeders. The mating rituals between the male and female peafowls are marked by flashy displays of brilliant feathers and descending female partners.
The male peafowls use their beautiful blue and green tail feathers during the breeding season to advertise their sexual and physical fitness. The females are the ones making a choice, and they prefer the males with beautiful and colorful tail feathers. Peafowls are typically polygamous in nature due to the fact that the dominant male has the most impressive displays, attracts most of the females, and ends up mating with all of them.
However, not all the peafowl are polygamous since the green peafowls are known to practice monogamy more so when in captivity. The wild peahens can at times become very aggressive to other competing females in order to remain alone with the dominant male. The female may repeatedly mate with the dominant male to ensure that the others do not get a chance. The peacocks start to establish territories in close proximity during the mid-spring season, and these small territories are made in an arrangement known as the lek.
They begin to perform their interesting displays with the aim of attracting the females by spreading their beautiful tail feathers with a fan shape, strutting them back and forth to produce a rattling noise that attracts the attention of the female peafowls. The female walks through different territories of different males as it examines their displays and then later chooses the male with the best and colorful displays.
Both the peahens and the peacocks have a reproductive organ that is used to transfer the sperm from the male to the female so as to fertilize the eggs. The sperms are transferred to the female, where they travel up to the uterus and fertilizes her eggs through a series of muscular spasms. The peahens usually lay between two to six eggs in a nest that is constructed on the ground level and incubate for up to 30 days. When a male peafowl finds a female that it is ready to mate with, the first step it takes is to unfold its feathers.
But unfortunately, like much of nature, there is no sure thing in peacock mating activity, and even boasting too much of a tail can scare off potential mates. The actual name of peacock, as we mentione above, is peafowl. The term peacock refers to the male bird and the female bird is called peahen.
When we pay attention to the physical features between male and female peacock, there are some visual differences. Even the male and the female look very different. Here you can see the male and female peacock images to know the differences. The male peacock colors is usually an iridescent shade of bright blue which can be used to attract mates. On the other hand, the female one has much more subdued feathers which tend to be either brown, gray or cream.
The size between male and female peacocks are entirely different. The males are taller and longer. The adult males have a body weight that ranges about 9 — 13 pounds, while the females about 6 — 9 pounds.
The adult male can be as long as 7. One of the most significant difference thing about male and female peacock is their tail feathers or trains. The females have no train at all. They have short tails with dull brownish-gray feathers. On the other hand, the males have long and colorful tails with iridescent feathers and can measure 4 — 5 feet long. Peafowl, especially peacocks are very popular with the beautiful trains and feathers they have.
Many females sport brown or gray feathers that help them camouflage themselves into their surroundings when predators get too close. Also, peacocks have blue or green bellies to match their plumage, while peahens have white bellies. Peacocks are noticeably larger than peahens and typically weigh anywhere from 9 to 13 pounds once they reach maturity. Females usually weigh between 6 and 9 pounds. The boy peafowls are also about a foot longer than the girls when fully grown.
Tail size is another difference. The peacock has a long, vibrant tail that can grow up to a whopping 75 inches in length. Females have much shorter tails of between 2 and 6 inches. Their tail feathers are dull, and they cannot fan their tails out like their male companions can. Peacocks have long, elegant necks with blue feathers that look like soft fur.
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