Pompous Peacock
by Anne Sands
Title
Pompous Peacock
Artist
Anne Sands
Medium
Painting - Acrylic
Description
This male peacock is trying to impress the females during mating season. In Cape Canaveral, Florida there are numerous wild peafowl that live in neighborhoods.
One of the most noticeable things about male Indian peafowl are their enormous trains -- or tail feathers. Females of the species have no train at all. Male trains can measure 4 to 5 feet long, longer than the rest of their bodies. Each of their long tail feathers has an ornamental ocellus, also known as an eyespot. They can fan out these feathers to display to females during mating season. Peacocks molt around January each year, losing their trains, but rapidly regrow them by June, ready to impress the ladies.
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May 6th, 2020
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