8 Baby Peacock
Peacocks must be spoiled! They’re lovely as babies (known as pea chicks) and they’re breath-taking as adults, especially the males, sporting colorful courtship plumage! Another name for Peacocks is Peafowl, they’re a part of the pheasant family stemming from Asia and Africa.
Charles Darwin wrote extensively on a theory that the peacock’s plums evolved through “sexual selection”. Although since then, scientists like Adeline Loyau have questioned Darwin’s beliefs, noting wider variations and reasonings for natural selection during mating, and the preferences of females don’t solely “correlate with the male’s physical condition”.
Possessing beauty can sometimes mean “trouble”! Some neighborhoods within the USA find the majestic birds to be a nuisance. Complaints are: they reproduce frequently, are noisy, messy and damage dark painted cars which they peck at because they find their reflection threatening.
