A decade later, Marion Petrie of Newcastle University, observed a group of male peacocks, and then clipped the eye spots out of half of the males' tails. She did not reduce the tail length, only the number of eye spots. She discovered that females preferred males with the most eye spots.
Animals in this family (jaguars and leopards) are sometimes called panthers. A certain combination of genes can lead them to have more pigment and appear black.
How cute! This is from last summer. They had a little sun bear arrive at the zoo. Not much for information about sun bears, just about this little one in particular.
