The upper and lower parts of a peacock’s plumage, the authors said, may work together in order to capture the fickle heart of a peahen. More to Read L.A. County ready to flip peacocks the bird ...

She made a magnificent model, and wrote an essay that included the widely-held belief that the purpose of the splendid plumage of the male (the peacock) is to attract the female (the peahen).

This is because all of these are signs of health and a superior immune system – traits that every peahen wants in her chicks. But not all is lost for males who have less than impressive plumage.

Though you can find peacocks fanning their fancy plumage in parks, farms, and zoos all over the world, these birds are native to Asia. They originated in India, where they are symbols of the Hindu ...

Among the birds of the world, it is usually the males who have the brightest feathers and the females who are the most drab, ...

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.

A peacock and a peahen were rescued by NMMC on Monday evening. Most of their tail feathers were missing, indicating illegal trade of peacock feathers.

Do a peacock’s feathers, in all their iridescent beauty, really win the girl? Scientists put an eye-tracking helmet camera on a peahen to find out where her gaze lingered.

In 1868, the naturalist Charles Darwin wrote that differences in plumage coloration between male and female birds of the same species were likely the result of sexual selection: Female birds ...