Peacocks know how to twerk it to attract females. During mating season, a flamboyant fowl will raise his iridescent train, shake his wings and vibrate his fan. Such displays can go on for hours.

DAVIS, S.D. (KELO) — In this part of the country, you’re most likely to spot a peacock or two at a zoo. But, the flamboyant birds can also be found in backyards — including in the small town of Davis.

Male peacocks fan their colourful rear feathers and shake them, but somehow keep their plumes' iridescent circles, or eyespots, nearly still, like a fixed stare. Peacock tail feathers beat on average ...

This image shows the tracks of a peahen's gaze as a peacock makes a courtship display. Purdue researcher Jessica Yorzinski uses eye-tracking technology to study avian behavior. (Photo courtesy of ...

When a peacock fans his plumage and struts his stuff, it's an impressive sight. Or so it appears to us humans. What really matters, of course, is what the female he's trying to impress makes of it. In ...

Inside a chain-link-wrapped enclosure on the campus of Texas A&M University, United States, one of the world’s foremost peacock experts has strapped cameras onto the heads of the birds and arrived at ...

ALBUQUERQUE — Unbeknownst to humans, peacocks may be having infrasonic conversations. New recordings reveal that males showing off their feathers make deep rumbling sounds that are too low pitched for ...

As male peacocks shake their long feathers in courtship, the iridescent eyespots remain nearly stationary and captivate females, according a study published April 27, 2016, in the open-access journal ...

THE dazzling display of colour in a peacock’s tail is produced by a surprisingly simple mechanism – a crystal structure woven into the bird’s feathers. Researchers have long known that the vivid blues ...

Wildlife activists have raised suspicion that there is a possibility of the peacocks being poached for their feathers. On speaking to a few of the vendors with peacock tail feathers at Navi Mumbai, it ...