When a peacock fans his plumage and struts his stuff, it's an impressive sight. Or so it appears to us humans. What really matters, of course, is what the female he's trying to impress makes of it. In a new study, scientists mounted tiny eye-tracking cameras on the heads of peahens to try to get inside their minds as they watched males' courtship displays.
The findings suggest that what a female pays attention to when she sizes up a potential mate isn't what some researchers had thought.
All those dramatic eyespots? Meh. But the width of his feather train? She's definitely checking that out. And when he turns around and shakes his tail feathers? That's totally hot.
By: Greg Miller,
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/26/peacock-eye-tracking
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