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2/8 The chickens and ducks spend nights locked up inside the nice coyote-free chicken house. Most mornings, the peacocks make an incredible sky-curdling racket until someone lets the chickens out.

“Aw, how cute,” I said. “They miss their little chicken friends,” I said.

That was before I read this article.

According to a new study by Roslyn Dakin and Robert Montgomerie, published in The American Naturalist, male peacocks will sometimes sit around making fake sex sounds, noises loud enough to be heard far and wide—a trick to make other peacocks think they’re getting some.
Whenever a peacock attempts to mate, he gives an exuberant squeal or hoot call as he rushes towards the female and attempts to mount her. 

Sometimes, though, says the new research, the males will make this characteristic sex sound even when they’ve got nothing going on. But here’s the thing: faking claims of sexual prowess actually make the males seem sexier. Females are more likely to visit males after they give a solo hoot call, and we confirm using a playback experiment that females are attracted to the sound of the hoot.

Does this look like the face of a fancybird who waits for the chickens to be out of sight so he can wake the entire peninsula up with his FAKE SEX HOOTS?

Yes. Yes it does.