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A study in The British Journal of Animal Behaviour suggests that when a peacock fans its dazzling train for the ladies during mating season, its quivering feathers emit and amplify a low-frequency sound inaudible to human ears. Depending on whether they want to attract females from far away or up close, they can change the sound by shaking different parts of their feathers.

When peacocks mate with peahens, they give out a loud “copulatory call.”
The birds can “fake” this call to attract more females. By doing so, he may be signaling to females that he’s more sexually experienced—and thus more genetically fit than other peacocks in the neighborhood. Dakin and Montgomerie found that a third of the calls were fake, and the birds that made them scored more hookups. Sneaky...

The male peachicks don’t start growing their showy trains until about age 3. In fact, it’s hard to tell the sex of a peachick because they’re nearly identical to their mothers. At around 6 months old, the males will begin to change color.