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] Date Posted:08:48:10 06/09/09 Tue In reply to:
helen
's message, "peacock in a trance??" on 08:37:28 06/08/09 Mon
There was a documentary filmed in India.
The peacock put his head down and the peahen ate the ticks
that were infesting his neck--to the mutual beneifit of
both.
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But this behavior is also to prove to peahen that he has
friendly intentions. A peahen can take advantage of this
and remove the peacock's crest feathers as I have observed
here in my own pens. Or worse--yesterday I introduced
Tinker/Stinker to a two year peahen named Peawee. She
began pecking him so violently that I decided to get him
out of there while he still had his eyeballs!!!!
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Date Posted:10:25:47 06/09/09 Tue
Thank you so much. He always does it after displaying his fan so it makes sense that it is all part of the same ritual: that he is displaying that he has friendly intentions. It is also interesting that i have seen his brother looking VERY closely at the crest of the one in a trance - I did wonder whether he might peck at it. Today i observed them both with their heads lowered, staring into each others eyes as if in a trance! When they do it they are completely motionless - it is strange to see in such active birds.
I hope your Peawee is more friendly to some of you other peacocks.
What little I know about this....