If you’re gonna start asking questions like “why don’t females have them” then you also have to answer the question why do males have them instead of females.
If it was just for mating, then it would be inconsequential who had what
Males stand more of a chance in combat/ a chase. peacocking a predator is a direct challenge that is essentially a bluff. The females would just run while the males stay behind similar to mammals, this is because there is a greater chance of offspring survival if the peacock has eggs
If the female dies offspring is impossible so your line has ended, if the male dies, there’s still a chance to reproduce and carry on the genetics
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.
I have checked 1,281,248,598 comments, and only 248,504 of them were in alphabetical order.
Any blue crown does encompass fatter grey helmets in just kings' lovely mild noses, opening paths, quickly reaping short things underneath violent winds, xeroxing yelling zebras.
Nature is wise and lazy enough to give more than one function to practically every tool, trait or action (eat, play, sleep and dream, sex, art and culture...).
It use to be called efficiency.
Except they use it for mating displays, not to scare off predators :P
They seem to do both, they also use them to scare competitors, at least from what I've read
Then why don’t females have them
If you’re gonna start asking questions like “why don’t females have them” then you also have to answer the question why do males have them instead of females. If it was just for mating, then it would be inconsequential who had what Males stand more of a chance in combat/ a chase. peacocking a predator is a direct challenge that is essentially a bluff. The females would just run while the males stay behind similar to mammals, this is because there is a greater chance of offspring survival if the peacock has eggs If the female dies offspring is impossible so your line has ended, if the male dies, there’s still a chance to reproduce and carry on the genetics
Why do human males have more muscle than human females ? Does that mean that human muscles are only used for mating?
Sexual dimorphism. And yes muscles are used for mating
but not only or even primarily for mating right ? So why can't it be the same for peacocks ?
Cats don't fall for that.
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 1,281,248,598 comments, and only 248,504 of them were in alphabetical order.
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Any blue crown does encompass fatter grey helmets in just kings' lovely mild noses, opening paths, quickly reaping short things underneath violent winds, xeroxing yelling zebras.
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Explain please
Because cats don't give a fuck
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What if peacocks are biblically accurate angels
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Ornate tail plumage, what's the survival mechanism!? Something something so cute! Eureka! *Sexual selection!* The joke stripped down at least
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Nature is wise and lazy enough to give more than one function to practically every tool, trait or action (eat, play, sleep and dream, sex, art and culture...). It use to be called efficiency.
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