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=** __INDI__ **** __AN PEACOCK__ **=

//** Scientific name: Pavo cristatus**//
=** __GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT__ **= =**This is a peacock 1 year of age.**= =**__REPRODUCTION__**= =2. **Peacocks usually lay four to six eggs at once! It can take up to twenty eight days to hatch. To impress the female the male spreads his feathers out and calls her over with a peacock noise.**= =**__CHACTERISTICS__ __OF THE PEACOCK__**= =**3. Peacocks have special air sacks that allows the air to flow through the lungs. Peacocks are omnivores that means they eat both meat and plants. Peacocks have good eyesight and hearing. Peacocks quickly grab their food with their beaks.**= =__**HABITAT**__= =**4. Their preferred habitat is foothills and lowland with brush and scattered trees for them to roost in. They can be found living in open forest, bush land, and sometimes the rain forest. **= =**__DIET__**= =**5. Peacocks are ground feeders. They eat plant parts, flower petals, seed heads, ticks, ants, termites, locusts, mice, scorpions, and small reptiles and amphibians. **= =**__BEHAVIOR__**= =**6. Peacocks do not not get along with other birds. At night, they roost at the top of the trees to protect themselves from predators. **= =**7.** __**SCIENTIFIC** **CLASSIFICATION**__= =**The peacock is in the Genus category.**= =__**8.FOOD CHAIN**__= =**Carnivorous animals like canines kill and eat peacocks in urban areas. Peacocks eat plants so they are at the bottom of the food chain.**= =**9. __HOW THE PEACOCK RESPONDS TO THE ENVIORMENT__**= =**They adapt by jumping on the prey and pecks it really hard and the predator gets unconcious then the peacock runs away.**= =__**10.IS THE PEACOCK ENDANGERED**__= =**Yes the peacock is endangered,****The peacock population is dwindling fast due to habitat loss. The humans keep clearing the peacocks habitat. T****he peacock may soon end up on the endangered list.**= =**11. sources**= === About Peafowl === How do **peacocks** reproduce - Answers.com Wiki **How** peacocks **reproduction** takes place Basic **Peacock** Facts and Information: Learn About These
 * 1) = **Peacocks do not grow the feather train or tail until they are two years of age, and they usually breed by the spring of their third year. The longer the feathers grow during the winter is a major part of the mating rites of the peacock. As they get older their tail gets more beautiful and more full.** **Their total length can reach near 8 feet; about 3 feet for the body and about 5 feet for the tail. Peacocks can weigh up to 9 to 13 pounds. ** =
 * Kingdom: || Animalia ||
 * Phylum: || Chordata ||
 * Class: || Aves ||
 * Order: || Galliformes ||
 * Family: || Phasianidae ||
 * Subfamily: || Phasianinae ||
 * Genus: || //**Pavo**// Linnaeus, 1758 ||
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=**A blue peacock opening his tail up close to the camera**= []