Peacock feathers fail to impress

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3-28-2008 6:20 PM

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New research casts doubt that peacock feathers are really a mating display</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/03/27/2200822.htm?site=science&topic=latest"><P>This throws a wrench in the long-held belief that male peacock feathers evolved in response to female mate choice.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/03/27/2200822.htm?site=science&topic=latest"><P>It could also indicate that certain other elaborate features in galliformes - a group that includes turkeys, chickens, grouse, quails and pheasants, as well as peacocks - are not necessarily linked to fitness and mating success.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/03/27/2200822.htm?site=science&topic=latest"><P>For Indian peafowl, which the researchers studied, male vocalisations appear to do a better job of grabbing females' attention than their visually screaming 'attire'.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/03/27/2200822.htm?site=science&topic=latest"><P>"We have the idea that peacock calls most influence peahens [female peacocks]," says lead author Dr Mariko Takahashi, a Japanese researcher at the <A target="_blank" href="http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index_e.html">University of Tokyo</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/03/27/2200822.htm?site=science&topic=latest"><P>The findings are published in the latest issue of the journal <A target="_blank" href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00033472"><EM>Animal Behaviour</EM></A>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F06A8D68-0BF7-4B93-AA99-C205FB649868/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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