Blue Indian Peafowl - Peacock in San Diego Zoo
From ftp://ftp.woof.net/pub/lochiel/animals/san-diego-zoo
san-diego-zoo Images from the San Diego Zoo's excellent
multimedia CD-ROM, "The Animals". There are
many different types of animals here, and a
few images of a sexual nature.
The Indian peafowl or blue peafowl (Pavo cristatus), a large and brightly coloured bird, is a species of peafowl native to South Asia, but introduced in many other parts of the world. The male, or peacock, is predominantly blue with a fan-like crest of spatula-tipped wire-like feathers and is best known for the long train made up of elongated upper-tail covert feathers which bear colourful eyespots. These stiff feathers are raised into a fan and quivered in a display during courtship. |
