The Peacock, perhaps best known in popular culture as the colorful inspiration for the logo for NBC, are in nature omnivorous. They consume plant parts, flower petals and seed heads when available, but prefer to eat insects and other arthropods. Vegetable matter provides peacocks with the necessary fiber required to digest hard scales and bones of small reptiles.

The male has beautiful iridescent blue-green or green colored plumage. His tail feathers have a series of eyes that are best seen when the tail is fanned. Both species have a head crest. The female has a mixture of dull green, brown and gray in her plumage. She lacks the long tail of the male, but has a crest.

Peafowl are capable of reproducing at the age of two. Peacocks do not reach full maturity until one year later. At the age of two, the feathers are not fully developed in length and density. While peacocks at that age are physiologically able to mate, they have very little chance of competing with the older peacocks that have larger feathers.