His Royal Majesty, from rq: The peacocks at the zoo regularly escape their enclosure and wander among us mortals. This one was hanging with the giraffes. Click for full size, such magnificence!
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Such the fancy-pants!
When I was a kid, I really freaked out from a peacock’s cry -- I thought it was someone being hurt. WTG evolution!
Their cry is something else. When we lived in SLC, we weren’t far from the park aviary. Peacock cries carry a long way. Which makes me remember that a teenager broke into that aviary and fucked a peahen to death.
Gorgeous. I used to keep peafowl… I really miss them, but do not have a proper aviary for them and you really need one to keep them safe, around here.
@Caine: I remember that aviary! I used to go to it nearly every weekend. Loved their birds.
Caine? Dafuq?
Ain’t evolution marvelous.
Raucous Indignation:
Don’t ask me. He did it, and it was one hell of a scandalous story. Lot of people wouldn’t have blinked over stringing that kid up. It was actually discovered and he was caught because of the peacocks crying -- the racket woke up people from over a mile around.
Kestrel:
It’s a beautiful aviary, I hope it’s still there. We went walking there at least once a week.
They’re wonderful. In our old flat you could hear the zoo peacocks.
Back in the days of beautiful castles, they would keep peacocks, but as far away from the main building as possible.