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 ...
LONG BEACH >> When Hannah Irrera’s grandmother called the 9-year-old to come outside Saturday morning to look at a bird, Hannah wasn’t sure to expect. Then she heard it squawk. “It sounded like the ...
When Rani Ghanem sees an opportunity for Internet stardom, he takes it. On Monday, the 21-year-old was working at his uncle’s Arcadia liquor store when a female peafowl, or peahen, strolled through ...
When it comes to picking peacocks, beauty is in the eye of the peahen. But what, precisely, does a peahen look for in a mate’s ornately feathered displays? Gentlemen of a plumed persuasion, take note: ...
Naperville Animal Control picked up a peahen this week running “afowl” on the north side of the city. The impounded bird, sometimes called a female peacock, is a first for the agency. Supervisor ...
Sunday night, something was staring back from the other side of the back door. Now, we live in the middle of nowhere, which, it turns out, means very strange things happen regularly. Ever chase a ...
SUNRISE, Fla. — South Florida is filled with animal lovers willing to do anything to save our defenseless creatures. But what do we do when that animal is invasive or non-native to our state or local ...