Peacock Courtship | World's Weirdest

in peafowl society there's no such thing as an easy hookup nothing happens without elaborate ritual and fanfare peacocks are the most shallow of all male birds I mean they go through this whole thing they turn their back to the female they rustle their little white fluffy tail feathers and then they whip around and Dazzler what that looks like to a female peahen I can only imagine because birds have much more brilliant color vision than we do they have much more refined color vision the male carries all the weight in these encounters it is he who has to impress because his chances are only as good as his tail it's the male peacock who has the long showy tail but it's really female choose enos that's driven the evolution of that tail peafowl think the more impressive the tail the better the genes they'll pass on to their young competition among males is fierce as they go tail to tail in a display called a lek it's sort of like an animal nightclub in other words the male's sing and dance and the females wander around and decide who they want to have sex with these male beauty pageants are make-or-break for auditioning wannabe fathers because in the bizarre world of animal courtship the stakes are high if a female peahen remains unimpressed the male's out of luck no sex no offspring no genes passed on often its females who hold the whip hand in the animal kingdom so what does a desperate male do he resorts to the dirty tricks department

Channel: Nat Geo WILD

Views: 745,190

Rating: 4.7210994 out of 5

Keywords: World's Weirdest, weird animals, strange animals, Freaky Feasts, Animals Behaving Badly, Bizarre animals, Friends with Benefits, animal video, shallow, peacock, birds, tail, Peacock Courtshipnat geo wild, national geographic, wild, wildlife, animals, nat geo, natgeo, science, discover, nature, documentary

Id: TTwT1-TpFhE

Length: 2min 15sec (135 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 10 2014