Darwin himself, by the way, had no doubts that the peacock's tail was beautiful in the eyes of the peahen.

Now, the modern twist on this display argument is that the peacock is also advertising its health to the peahen.

It may have been that she was directed to spotlight the costumes -- that can be the only answer to why she flipped around swaying her skirts and otherwise acting like a peahen in the overwhelming number of costumes she wore.

The same goes for former Justice Mahesh Chandra Sharma of the Rajasthan High Court – reportedly a science graduate himself – who suggested in an interview last year that India’s national bird, the peacock, “is a lifelong celibate” that impregnates the peahen by shedding a tear.

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