Peacocks' striking feather displays fail to excite, much less interest, females, according to new research. This throws a wrench in the long-held belief that male peacock feathers evolved in ...

Peacock tail feathers shake at resonance and hold eyespots still during courtship displays Dynamic feather vibrations enhance male peacocks display for female viewers Date: April 27, 2016 Source: PLOS ...

Train feathers are the the long, quintessential green, blue and bronze plumes that made the male peacock famous. In train-rattling, the bird shakes the train feathers to create a shimmering ...

But peacock plumage has a lot going on -- wings, tail feathers, eyespots all over ... the peahen watched the male only 27.5% of the time.

As male peacocks shake their long feathers in courtship, ... This is a male peacock courting a female peacock. view more . Credit: Image Credit: Roslyn Dakin <i>PLOS ONE</i> e0152759.

Peacock tail feathers have resonant frequency lower than the lowest string on a bass guitar and only a little higher than the 20 Hz lower limit of human hearing.

An average male peacock sheds around 200 feathers during his annual moult – meaning the makers would have had to have harvested the feathers from more than ten birds over the course of a year.