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Variation in the train morphology of peacocks (Pavo cristatus)

✍ Scribed by M. Petrie; P. Cotgreave; I. Stewart

Book ID
115258248
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
459 KB
Volume
238
Category
Article
ISSN
0952-8369

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## Abstract The feathers in the train of the peacock serve not for flying but for sexual display. They are long, slender beams loaded in bending by their own weight. An outer circular conical shell, the cortex, is filled by a closed foam of 7.6% relative density, the medulla, both of feather kerati