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 PEACOCK

Peacock belongs to birds. Peacock includes into omnivorous. it eats insects, plants, graints, and flowerheads. Peacock is included into diurnal. It hunts the preys and noon and sleeps at night.

The peacock has been most found in India, in deserts, and dry savanna areas, Peacocks are also found in forest. In Indonesia, peacocks are also found in national park of baluran, Situbondo.

The male peacock is most well known for it’s big tail feathers that fan out behind and can be nearly two meters in length, on the peacock head, there is erect tuft. The tail is very long, with green metalic colour. The tail is shiny. The colorful display of the peacock is used for both weeding and defencing purposes. Male peacock attrascks female peacock to mate, by showing off the array. When the male peacock feels threatened, he will fan the tail out to make him self look bigger and try to intimadate approaching predators. Peacocks’ life span company gets to about 20 years old. Although some peacock have been known to get older ages particularly the peacock that are in captivity lives longer than in wild life. During the mating season, the male peacock may mate with up to six different female peahens.

The female peahen lays between 4 up to 8 brownish eggs, the female peacock incubates her eggs by sitting on them. and the baby of peacock hatches after about a month.

Green peacock is on danger extinction because of hunting and lossing the habitats.

SUMBER

Ardley, Neil, 1985, burung, Jakarta, PT Widyadara

Rosmawati, Evi, 2008, Ensiklopedia Sains Hewan, Klaten, Sahabat