A new study has found that the pulsating sound created when a male peacock shakes his colorful feathers causes the crest on the female’s head to vibrate. For now, however, it remains unclear how ...

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 response ...

Many people know that peacock feathers shimmer excitingly in the light. But the fact that the feathers emit laser light after targeted excitation is a novelty. A team of researchers from Florida ...

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. In ...