We have one of these in our neighborhood. I chaulk it up to a result of incest. We started with 2 peacocks, now there are more than 12. 11 normal, 1 albino.
Hey… I’m an albino, and I know a thing or two about it – and it ain’t got nothing to do with incest. It’s merely a genetic mutation, and not one that albinos will easily pass on to their offspring, for that matter.
It’s hard to completely comprehend how big those animals are until you stand in front of one; I was just a kid at the time when I saw one, but I remember thinking peacocks were magnificently beautiful, but intimidatingly large with their plumage outspread.
Jamie Stephens
on 26 Feb 07
These birds (peacocks in general) are incredible. I have always wondered what evolutionary advantage such vastly overstated beauty held.
Looks like a “what if NBC and Apple merged” image. Hmmm… law &order on the white “mac & PC” background, that is tempting.
mh
on 27 Feb 07
it ain’t got nothing to do with incest. It’s merely a genetic mutation, and not one that albinos will easily pass on to their offspring, for that matter.
I’m sure you’re right in your case, but wouldn’t inbreeding be exactly the thing to make it easier for recessive genes or mutations to be passed along?
mh
on 27 Feb 07
it ain’t got nothing to do with incest. It’s merely a genetic mutation, and not one that albinos will easily pass on to their offspring, for that matter.
I’m sure you’re right in your case, but wouldn’t inbreeding be exactly the thing to make it easier to pass on a recessive gene or mutation (like, if both parents had the mutation and it didn’t interfere with reproduction)?
Jesper
on 26 Feb 07Embracing constraints.
Damian
on 26 Feb 07Sometimes a peacock is just a peacock.
Noah Stokes
on 26 Feb 07We have one of these in our neighborhood. I chaulk it up to a result of incest. We started with 2 peacocks, now there are more than 12. 11 normal, 1 albino.
Danny de Wit
on 26 Feb 07Now that’s a beautiful thing.
Luca
on 26 Feb 07Hey this is like simple software.
Joe Grossberg
on 26 Feb 07Ooh … I want to see it under black light.
Raphael Campardou
on 26 Feb 07MVC separation
Long Time Listener Repeat Caller
on 26 Feb 07“I chaulk it up to a result of incest.”
Hey… I’m an albino, and I know a thing or two about it – and it ain’t got nothing to do with incest. It’s merely a genetic mutation, and not one that albinos will easily pass on to their offspring, for that matter.
Carlo
on 26 Feb 07It reminds me of a giant dandelion
mkb
on 26 Feb 07Is putting this on a design blog a religious statement?
Brandon Rome
on 26 Feb 07Pretty.
I’d love to see one of those in real life.
Charlie Triplett
on 26 Feb 07It’s hard to completely comprehend how big those animals are until you stand in front of one; I was just a kid at the time when I saw one, but I remember thinking peacocks were magnificently beautiful, but intimidatingly large with their plumage outspread.
Jamie Stephens
on 26 Feb 07These birds (peacocks in general) are incredible. I have always wondered what evolutionary advantage such vastly overstated beauty held.
Seth Aldridge
on 26 Feb 07This is an amazingly strange animal.
Anonymous Coward
on 26 Feb 07I wonder if it gets any…
Anonymous Coward
on 26 Feb 07Not a true albino, but rather a recessive “color mutation”.
One of (apparently) 185 possible varieties, according to Amy’s Peacock Paradise.
Ain’t the internet a wonderful place?
Kenn Christ
on 26 Feb 07Wow, that is beautiful. He looks like a snowflake.
Fred
on 26 Feb 07Here’s another:
anon coward
on 27 Feb 07iPeacock?
Anonymous Coward
on 27 Feb 07Who can I sue?
michael
on 27 Feb 07that peacock is getting real
Itai
on 27 Feb 07When I was a kid i assembled a jigsaw puzzle with an image of one of those peacocks. something like 1000 pieces. that was hard.
Ben Rowe
on 27 Feb 07albeacock?
AO
on 27 Feb 07Ahem. They’re known as White Peacocks (or Peafowl). Albino, in this context, sound racist.
Peter
on 27 Feb 07Looks like a “what if NBC and Apple merged” image. Hmmm… law &order on the white “mac & PC” background, that is tempting.
mh
on 27 Feb 07I’m sure you’re right in your case, but wouldn’t inbreeding be exactly the thing to make it easier for recessive genes or mutations to be passed along?
mh
on 27 Feb 07I’m sure you’re right in your case, but wouldn’t inbreeding be exactly the thing to make it easier to pass on a recessive gene or mutation (like, if both parents had the mutation and it didn’t interfere with reproduction)?
Anonymous Coward
on 28 Feb 07as
cos
on 01 Mar 07Yeah, no albino – it’s just a white peacock – just saw a bunch of these at Nanjing Zoo a couple of weeks ago.
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