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Science Note: Turning up the volume on the mating dance
India’s national bird, the peacock, is renowned for its beauty and distinctive squawking. New research shows that peacocks communicate with infrasound thrums, sounds below the range of human hearing.
The peacock is notorious for its unique mating display, where it raises up its ornate eye-spotted tail and shakes. Now, new research tells us humans can’t quite experience the full show. Christy Perera reports.