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Article: All eyes on ... peacocks. (people have watched beautiful peacocks for thousands of years and peacocks' feathers have eye-like designs that seem to look back)(Cover Story)
- Article from:
- Ranger Rick
- Article date:
- April 1, 1997
- Author:
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Peacocks are big, bold, and beautiful, and people have been wild about them for thousands of years--well, most people.
Look at all these dazzling "eyes." You probably know they're part of a male peacock's feathers. Long ago, people hardly ever got to see this amazing sight. Why not? Because peacocks, like the handsome blue one at left, lived only in the deep forests of India.
Today, some wild peacocks can still be found in India, but many more tame ones live there. They run around the villages among the people. The villagers like having the beautiful peacocks nearby, because the birds eat small poisonous snakes and other pests. No wonder the people of India ...