Platinum peacock with a huge fan base

By SIMON CABLE

Last updated at 20:22 17 April 2007


They say that gentlemen prefer blondes. And this fellow must be hoping that somewhere there's a lady peacock who feels the same.

Out for a strut at a Chinese zoo, the rare pure white male fanned his magnificent platinum tailfeathers in a common mating gesture.

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White Peacock

Unfortunately for him, the only other peacock within squawking distance was another white male.

The pair are the star attraction at the Harbin Zoo in the north-east of the country, where they have lived for two years. Unlike their more familiar cousins, the Indian Blue, they only have faint eye-spot markings, which means they appear snow white from a short distance away.

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