| 21. | For instance, peacocks display vibrant plumage colours in an attempt to attract and copulate with their female counterpart, the peahen.
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| 22. | If a peacock has fewer eyes , then the peahen will continue to look for a better, more suitable mate.
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| 23. | The peahen's reproductive success and the likelihood of survival of her chicks is partly dependent on the genotype of the mate.
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| 24. | Or the evolution of lekking could be driven by the peahens, who may prefer to choose mates from among peacocks with similar traits.
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| 25. | The adult peahen has a rufous-brown head with a crest as in the male but the tips are chestnut edged with green.
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| 26. | A stuffed peahen perches on the desk in the outer office, along with a ceramic owl's head with a light-bulb eyeball.
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| 27. | Males with more exaggerated secondary sexual characteristics, such as bigger, brighter peacock trains, tend to have better genes in the peahen's eyes.
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| 28. | Why do peacocks looking for mates hang out together like buddies at a singles bar, even when many are never lucky enough to find the perfect peahen?
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| 29. | He argued that male-male competitions were forms of natural selection, but that the " drab " peahen's coloration is itself adaptive as camouflage.
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| 30. | The angle at which the ocelli are displayed during courtship is more important in a peahen's choice of males than train size or number of ocelli.
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