@HAMSTER GOD It depends, there was one that would wander over to one of my family friends houses (to hang with their chickens). He would walk up to you, wait until you looked at him, and then would spread his feathers at you for a moment before lowering them and strutting off. He would actively try to get your attention to do it too. Some peacocks do show off, though this one did seem quite defensive. The one I knew would almost cluck/chirp (it is kind of hard to describe) and would only raise the tail, not fluff all the rest of his feathers too.
@error 404 they asked "why you hate it" and you responded with "cause it's overused" instead of clarifying that you don't hate it, and that the question is incorrect. You agreed with the question, by answering it the way you did. You hate it BECAUSE it is over used, not that you don't hate it.
The reason why the bird displayed his tail feathers was because he felt threatened by the boy that was acting aggressively in the eyes of the bird. When you know birds and have studied, rescue, rehabilitation and release, and bred them over the last 37 years, you come to know their behavior quite well. Birds communicate with their eyes and their body movements. What you or I may never give a thought to doing, those are often fighting words in bird language. You NEVER want to do things like flapping your arms or bobbing your head, nor do you want to make fast moves that can make a bird feel threatened. And as with ALL animals, you NEVER want to approach a bird from above the head. You must always approach from their foot level, so that they do NOT feel threatened. However, keep in mind that NOT all animals wish to have human and/or stranger interactions. Please be respectful at ALL times and you will have a better experience for the both of you.
@@flowersun7879 So what? Kids need to be taught these things or else someone will teach them the hard way and they'll be upset. Just because it's a kid doesn't mean shit. Parents need to teach their kids this early on.
Several comments about the kids behavior. Birds do bird things, kids do kid things. There is a teachable moment here that the magnificent plumage we see is a peacock's "putting up his dukes". It's a defense movement. The parents could let the child know (provided that they know) that the bird is not to be approached and to look with your eyes. The child is excited but meant no harm. It's certainly a lovely sight to see🦚💗😊
There was a teachable moment there that the parents totally missed. When the kid says he wants to kick it. “No Johnny, that is not nice. He’s so beautiful, look at his feathers, etc”. Any of that would have been appropriate, in my opinion. Not letting him approach the peacock in any way would have been the correct “parent” thing to do.
That’s Exactly what I figured the bird was doing 😂 he’s probably very used to humans and has figured out when they gather and annoy him they’ll go away if he flashes some feather and shimmy lol peacocks let you know when they’re genuinely pissed, he just wanted them to piss off 😆
People aren't really upset at the child not knowing how to act around animals, they're annoyed that the parent doesn't say anything, doesn't ask the child to be kinder or stop stamping his feet at it, doesn't say a thing when he's demanding it to fly or says 'kick it'!
I think the kid actually said "shake it". Had to turn my volume all the way up to hear it, but I think he said shake. Anyway, I agree with you. The kid is clearly very young, yet people act like he's supposed to be some bird whisperer. As if all of us didn't do something similar when we were kids. You should've seen me chasing my cat around the house when I was little hahaha The parent maybe should have told him to keep his distance at bit more, but in the end nothing too bad happened aside from the birb getting stressed. Obviously that should be avoided as much as possible, but people are acting like the boy beat it half to death. I'm honestly way more disgusted by the people saying they hope the kid gets "karma". Imagine wishing something bad to happen to a literal child for acting like a child!
@@goathead5073 Growing a back bone has a lot to do with it. Most parents are afraid to discipline their children, and realize they should have done something about it after their child has already grown up. The mother messed up on this one.
@@ateam388 Oh absolutely! I agree with you on this one 100%, I think the original person I replied to meant that the people criticizing the Mom should grow a backbone.
Jacqueline Tees, yescI have. As a kid in Arizona we took a route home from the grocery store and if we hit it just right we'd see the males spread their feathers. Never got tired of seeing them.
According to Treehugger website they are technically white peacocks. Not albinos. Just reporting their input and yes they are gorgeous. Saw one for the first time in Hawaii!
I hate how everyone just blames the child for... Being a kid? Being curious? Did he try to touch the peacock? No, he didn't. Did he try to hurt him? No, he didn't. Did he try to approach him? Yes, he did, and it scared the peacock, but come on. He didn't run up to him, didn't threaten him deliberately. And you're just calling him a brat for being a curious kid. The boy isn't doing anything illegal or wrong. The peacock is not in the cage, as you can see, he's freely walking around. Yes, it got scared, but most animals get scared when they are approached by a person. Does it mean we have to burn people at stake for frightening a bird, which is naturally easily frightened?
people in these comments, are bullying kid just because he was enjoying his little innocent world. He didnt hurt the bird, he is just happy to see the peacock as meeting peacocks is not frequent and people are accusing him. Peacock was happy too otherwise he wouldnt shown his wings n he would better run away. I too have witnessed a peacock who was dancing in rain n fully spreading his wings thinking he was alone. When i went close to him, he closed his wings and looked shy. I think this peacock is dancing coz he felt safe n friendly vibes from child.
Really? He felt like dancing. Wow, you really need to read a book or look on internet. The peacock felt threatened! Your statement is ridiculous. Geez, are you in 5th grade?
OH MY GOD I CANNOT BELIEVE THESE STUPID PARENTS!!! LETTING A CHILD APPROACH A BIRD WHICH IS NOT IN THE CAGE AND WALKING AROUND, NOT TRAPPED AND HAS SOMEWHERE TO RUN??!! THAT'S INHUMANE! WE SHOULD BEAT THE KID WITH STICKS, HE DARED TO BE A KID!!! WE SHOULD BURN THE PARENTS AT THE STAKE, THEY LET THEIR CHILD BE A CHILD!!! AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE VIDEO, THE KID IS BEATING THE POOR PEACOCK WITH STONES AND RIPPING HIS FEATHERS OUT!!!
My boss, had a bunch of Peacocks. They would always display their features to impress the female Peacocks. I always liked watching them do it. When Peacocks, feels threatened they also show their feathers. I could tell by the way he was looking around before he opened them he felt threatened by the child. Luckily the Peacock didn't try to attack the child. They are beautiful but also very territorial of their surroundings.
I once went to a petting zoo of sorts that had free roaming peacocks. I has blue hair at the time that was starting to fade to green. They kept following me everywhere like they were trying to figure out if I was one of them.
I never tire of watching this. I tend to put it on every few months along with a video of a white peacock that just awes me in its beauty. God sure knows how to ‘wow’ us.
Fun fact: Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent aren't the only places you can find wild peafowl they can also be found in Africa, the Congo peafowl. The smallest of the peafowl
Yes 🥰. I live near the mountains (Western Ghats). The only problem is they destroy my Garden 😑. But now they're trained not to. I feed them regularly too 👍🏼. They are Lord Murugan's animal. So we are always devoted towards Peacock like Crows (Shani's animal) 👍🏼.
For your Information, the little boy approaching the peacock is why the bird lifted its feathers & shook. It was protecting itself & it was a show of aggression. These are wild birds. They have a hooked claw on the legs and can & do inflict injuries. Keep away from them! Do Not let children get close to them! Our zoo used to have peacocks. But because parents wouldn't stop their children from attacking the poor birds, they got rid of them. The birds had been at our zoo for 70 years with no problems. I liked these beautiful peacocks as long as they were left alone there hadn't been a problem. What a bummer that because people didn't help protect the birds as well as their own children we lost a precious asset to our zoo.
Man the amount of comments just hating the kid is actually astounding. This is a fucking kid we're talking about here, he's just fascinated by the peacock and means no harm to the animal. Sure he's annoying but he's naive. Unless you're complaining about the parents not doing anything than I 100% agree with you.
Most people aren’t blaming the kid. They’re blaming the parents for not teaching their kid to not startle the peacock. It would be like the parents letting their kid walk up to a rattlesnake because he’s fascinated by it’s rattle.
Guys I looked it up and peacocks do fan out their tails and shake them slightly when threatened, so it is a possibility it felt uncomfortable and not showing off during mating season. The child didn’t seem to be screaming at it or making sudden movements but the bird might still have felt threatened by the body language.
@@vn1944 if the kid would of stepped up normally it probably would of have the same effect since I also walked up to a peacock before (it was a tamed one never approach a wild one) it also spread out it's tail fathers and tried to look big while taking threatening steps forwards
Yeah but how often to you just come across a peacock? Who's gonna spend their life reading up on how animals show stress when chances are you simply won't meet one outside a zoo or something? Especially if its not a hobby or a job to them, if it doesn't directly relate to their personal life there's plenty the avg Joe won't know. We just gotta tell the people around us what those feathers mean. And encourage them to do same.
@@jheanie6812 I'm sorry, but respect goes beyond humans. You don't do this to cats or dogs, either. There's no special training for respecting animals. "How often do you come across a peacock?" How incredibly selfish. An animal deserves respect, whether you have experience with it or not. CLEARLY, one does not agitate animals just to see their plumage. Do you know how long those claws are on a bird? People get attacked by chickens doing stuff like this. You don't need to know peacock language to not be a jerk. Additionally, why would you test the boundaries of an animal you don't know about? This all screams entitlement Children getting attacked by animals can almost always be chalked up to lack of education on the animal. If you decide to be around animals, (yes, even at the zoo), one would think that stepping to them is a no-no, right? You wouldn't do it to an animal your size, I bet. . One would assume that the parents care enough about the child to TEACH them to respect animals. The fact that this child was stomping and getting closer means the kid is being threatening, and every single adult there literally let this happen. Why? Because they are also selfish; they'd put their child in danger to see a peacock do what it does. I bet they would be "so surprised" if the bird attacked, as is the sad story of the put down family cat or dog that was constantly harassed by a child who literally didn't understand, and the adults didn't care enough to teach. People need to realize they aren't the only living creatures here, and making ridiculous excuses like "but they don't know about peacocks" you know a shitty child behavior, though, don't you??? Why is it so hard for people to just stop taking things? You don't need to see the peacock do this, we have the internet! Put a forest cam if you want to see them in nature, but stop forcing everyone to do their little monkey dance for you.
@@justjess6636 Yeah keep talking like you wouldn't want to observe a rare creature... Hey it's okay to be curious, even they are curious themselves. You know about all the videos of animals getting very close to humans thus scaring them? Curiosity is natural, and you have 60% chance of being a hypocrite by saying that you wouldn't approach it.
kid: does weird dance peacock: what the hell bruh! you wanna see dance,here it goes! kid: continues to do it even more weirder and asks the peacock to fly with it peacock: clearly I have the bigger brain!
The easiest way, and less stressful for the peacock, is to just mimic the matting call. Back in the mid 70's this private drive used to open for a few hours on Sundays. They had peacocks in their orange grove, and people would take bread and feed them. One rare time I got to see the females, and I guess it was matting season. I listened carefully, had a week to practice. When we went back I made the matting call, I had a dozen or so peacocks open their tails and start strutting around, and then the rare albino came out strutting. Other people were whining and complaining to me for stealing all of the peacocks from them. Until I said I was trying to get the albino to come out. Some people didn't know about him. The dad next to me asked how I learned to call them, I explained. Then told him it was a lot easier than trying to learn how to call wild turkeys. 🤣🦃 Don't stress the birds out, just use the matting call. It sounds like they are trying to say “elp”. Like help, without the h. High pitched, slightly nasal. Easy peasy. Take care, stay safe, have a nice day. 👵☺️✌️☮️🖖 😷 🙉🙈🙊 🦃
This reminds me of my time as a volunteer at the local zoo, there were several peacocks including albinos that free roamed but were constantly chased by visitors in some cases people plucking out tail feathers before a volunteer or zookeeper could intervene, there were signs everywhere telling people to leave the peacocks alone including pictures for kids and non english speakers. I was always scared there'd be an attack and the birds would be blamed
Weird. Our local zoo had free roamers too, but we never had any problems with folks chasing them. They were able to fly away when they needed to. Zoo volunteer solidarity~
@@TigStripe ours could fly and liked to hangout on roofs but we also had sections of paths that were covered by trees or had awnings that the peacocks loved walking around under during the hit months
Im pretty sure we all know why the peacock opened it's tail. And that is cause it feels threatened by the people, especially the boy who is slowly walking to get a closer look. If you look closely, after it opened it's tail, you would notice that its trying to scare the people, cause that's how their tails work, its so that every predator that tries to eat them, will get scared cause of it's tail. So basically, they don't open their tails for show, they open it for defense, in hopes that the predator or any threatening being will leave them alone. And keep in mind that a lot of animals, even when they don't bite or hurt, still won't want any human contact cause they fear for the worse. So please, remember to respect the animals and their natural habitat. Yes, some animals have their instincts of trusting humans, but sometimes it's cause of their ancestors of some sort. But it's important to know that a lot of animals don't like human interaction so we should respect that.
@@lupinsredjacket3191 reducing peacock to just a tropical bird. You just insulted both the peacock and the turkey. You think the turkey is ugly that's y u take it out on the peacock.
Lady E Me, They are beautiful. That's a male. In Arizona as a kid we'd sometimes pass a house where a peacock lived with its people. The male always seemed to have its tail feathers spread when we drove by. It was too beautiful for words.
