J Lo recently Rented 12 albino Peacocks for her wedding…my question is how rare are albino peacocks and if someone wanted to rent 12 of them how much would this be?
Peacocks(and peahens) are some of the nastiest birds(geese, penquins included).
WTF? I would think that the iridescent, multicolored plumage of the non-albino peacock would be greatly preferable if you’re ordering birds as decorations. This is kind of like ordering a white rainbow.
My question is why would anyone want an albino peacock - isn’t their color supposed to be the point?
Eh. They’re actually kind of pretty, I think.
But yeah, I’m not really sure where one would go for rent-a-bird service…Avis, perhaps?
…sorry.
I’ll bet JLo just got confused by the Yellow Pages ad that said RENT-A-COCK, white or colored.
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Yeah, I saw an albino peacock at the gardens of the Keukenhof here in the Netherlands. Pretty spectacular. It may have been a rare non-albino white peacock instead of an albino, though: as far as I can tell, it didn’t have red eyes, and apparently non-albino white peacocks do exist.
As for why you’d want white ones rather than the regular kind for a wedding…well, I presume they’d go better with a white wedding gown.
As for where to get them, check the yellow pages or google for “exotic birds” and/or “animal rental”. Apparently such companies do a lot of business with show-biz folks for films and other entertainment gigs, so I wouldn’t be surprised that someone in the JLo entourage would know where to lay hands on a dozen white peacocks.
I wonder if she realizes what the birds sound like? (scroll down)
Oh, I love the sound of the peacock’s cry, personally! (Lived in India a couple years and saw a lot of them—no white ones, though.)
See, the word for “peacock” in Sanskrit is “mayura” (maybe derived from a name in some non-IE language? I forget), and IMHO it was originally totally onomatopoeic.
A peacock’s cry sounds very clearly like it’s saying “ma-YOO-ra! ma-YOO-ra!” Cool.
I agree, though, that the general effect is quite loud, harsh, and sudden, and would probably startle the piss out of a bunch of American tanked-up wedding guests.
Her wedding? I thought she was married to Whatsisname? Marc Anthony? Or did she divorce him and find somebody else and I missed it?
Maybe it’s gotten to the point where even Lopez has lost track of her marriages.
They are, but I wonder what the peahens think? Normally, like most birds of the order, they’re pretty strongly fixated on color. In chickens, which are in the same group, the rooster opens courtship by dipping his neck, so the hens can see his pretty neck feathers iridesce.
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Gabba, gabba, one of us…
Gabba, gabba, one of us…
Gabba, gabba, one of us
Length matters just as much if not more. I saw a study on peacock selection where they found that clipping the length of the feathers had the greatest impact on if a peacock was able to mate or not. There was no test of colors, however.
Damn, that was the funniest thing I’ve seen all week.
I guess size really does matter.
You can buy white pea fowl here:
It’s probably cheaper to rent than to buy, if you can find a rental agent.
Remember, you’ll pay extra if you don’t return them with their tanks full of birdseed.