{"id":2011,"date":"2026-05-06T00:27:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/cikavinky\/pavych-piria-z-okom\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T01:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:16:17","slug":"pavych-piria-z-okom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/cikavinky\/pavych-piria-z-okom\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are there \u201ceyes\u201d painted on the peacock's feathers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Why are there "eyes" drawn on peacock feathers?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Imagine a bird carrying the world's largest fan \u2014 one and a half meters wide and brighter than a rainbow. It's a peacock! But the most amazing thing is that each feather has an "eye" painted on it. Not a real one, of course, but a pattern of blue, green, and gold. There can be up to 200 of these "eyes" on the tail of one peacock!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are they for? It's simple - to charm the peacocks. When the male wants to please the female, he raises his tail, fanns it and starts shaking it. The feathers tremble, the "eyes" flicker - and it looks as if hundreds of eyes are looking at the peacock at the same time. Hypnosis!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scientists have tested: the more \u00abeyes\u00bb on the tail, the faster the peacock chooses a male. Researcher Marion Petrie counted the \u00abeyes\u00bb of 200 peacocks and found that males with 150+ \u00abeyes\u00bb had twice as many pairs as those with 130. For the peacock, this is a signal: \u00abI am strong, healthy, I can protect the chicks!\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And how does a peacock \u00abpaint\u00bb such \u00abeyes\u00bb? It\u2019s not paint. It\u2019s the structure of the feather! Tiny plates refract light so that we see blue, green, gold \u2014 even if the feather itself is brown. This is called structural color. Soap bubbles shimmer in the same way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It's interesting that wearing such a tail is difficult! It hinders flight and attracts the attention of predators. But beauty is worth the sacrifices - at least that's what the peacock thinks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People have admired peacocks for millennia: they have been painted in India, Greece, and Ukraine. Have you ever seen a peacock in person?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More interesting facts about animals at on the category page<\/a> \u2728<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n

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There are up to 200 \u201ceyes\u201d on a peacock\u2019s tail. And it works \u2014 like a magnet for peacocks!<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2010,"parent":1782,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-with-title","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2011","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2090,"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2011\/revisions\/2090"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}