The question on everyone’s mind is how will the PUAs incorporate this?
Peacocks shake their big tail feathers around 26 times/second to court females.
New discovery: the little feather crests on top of peahen heads are vibration-sensors that could evaluate how good the peacocks are at doing this. #resonance
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/12/peacock-crests-are-vibration-sensors/578656/ …
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Twerk 26 times to attract women. Got it. I’ll test it out today at work.
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Immediate consideration is how this coevolved with her sexual selection pressure on him to be fantastic (no pun). Her crest would suggest ancestral navigating function co-opted (no pun) for mate detection. His response to facilitate her detection of him. So, how much is visual?
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Seems like it's all of the above: visual and vibratory and acoustic (peacocks are loud)
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Why are you propagating the Patriarchy?
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