9 Proud Facts About Peacocks

They produce infrasonic sounds

Apart from the amazing visual display, there is something much deeper going on when the peacocks flaunt their amazing trains. A study has shown that they can produce an infrasonic sound that human beings can’t hear, and both peacocks and peahen respond to it. This simply means that apart from what we see during the mating ritual, the peacock’s train is actually a multimodal signal to attract peahens and warn other peacocks not to interfere with their business.

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