Peacock Splendour II
by Al Bourassa
Title
Peacock Splendour II
Artist
Al Bourassa
Medium
Photograph - Photographic Artworks
Description
To see this fellow strut his stuff please see http://youtu.be/XotM26bLbzc.
This artwork is derived from a photograph taken near the aviary at the Pumapongo Inca ruins May 10, 2012 in Cuenca, Ecuador, South America. This fellow was in fine form today, performing his sexy mating dance ritual for a nearby PeaHen. He would spin and fluff and ruffle his feathers and even give some rear winks to bedevil his intended.
According to National Geographic: The peacock is one of the natural world's most elaborate and showy males, mustering its physical resources to wow potential mates with its enormous and gaudy, fan-like tail plumage.
Now scientists in China say they have uncovered the exact mechanisms used by one species to produce the iridescent green, blue, yellow, and brown tiny feather tips that comprise the bird's distinctive ornament.
"The male peacock tail contains spectacular beauty because of the brilliant, iridescent, diversified, colorful eye patterns," said Jian Zi, a physicist at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and lead author of the study published online in the science journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Male peacocks shed and re-grow tail feathers each year. The plumage is prized throughout the world as an exotic decoration.
Researchers found that the feathers' bright colors are produced not by pigments, but rather by tiny, intricate two-dimensional crystal-like structures. Slight alterations in the spacing of these microscopic structures cause different wavelengths of light to be filtered and reflected, creating the feathers' many different iridescent hues.
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May 11th, 2012
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Kim Henderson
Did you ever have one of these fellas fly over your head? Strange is all i'm gonna say...The processing really complements his colors.
Al Bourassa replied:
That sounds like a real experience Kim. I'm trying to get a mental picture of how one could fly with all that paraphenalia. It can't be easy, or for much of a distance.
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