Every month, museum visitors choose the exhibit they liked the most. What they singled out for November was the new exhibit of the museum, the common peacock! The Indian peafowl (Pavo cristatus) belongs to the pheasant family, the order of Galliformes, and comes from the forests of South India. It is a protected species in India and also their national bird and is divided into three species: the blue peacock (Pavo cristatus), the Congo peacock (Afropavo congensis), and the green peacock (Pavo muticus). It also displays a marked form of sexual dimorphism, with males having a green or blue color and a strikingly long fan-like tail, in contrast to females which have brownish-gray plumage and no tail. It was known even in Ancient Greece and Rome and they believed that they were protected by the Gods, that's why they used to have peacocks in the temples and in the courtyards of wealthy people.

2/12/2022