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Peacocks
Tamil Nadu: Carcasses of 47 peacocks found near a lake in Madurai
Scroll Staff
· Aug 05, 2018 · 10:50 am
Neither Kalidasa’s peacocks nor the Kamasutra’s ‘mayura asana’ suggested substituting sex with tears
Bijoya Goswami
· Jun 04, 2017 · 06:30 pm
Everything you wanted to know about peafowl sex, by a researcher who’s spent a decade studying it
Vinita Govindarajan
· Jun 04, 2017 · 12:30 pm
Peacock sex is an important part of how we understand evolution – but it doesn't involve tears
Rohan Venkataramakrishnan
· Jun 01, 2017 · 01:30 pm
