Males

Males can grow to at least 6 feet (1.8 metres) long (body length) and weigh about 500 lb (230 kg).

Record weight for males is claimed as 700 lbs (318 kg), but this cannot be confirmed.

Both males and females have white feathers on their wings and tails.

This means that even though it usually lives on the land, it spends a great amount of time in rivers and lakes where males lead groups of 5 to 30 females and young.

Adult males live alone.

Males however, live in small family groups of 2-3 brothers, known as coalitions.

It's only the males that are called peacocks, while the females are called peahens.

Although they vary in size, males are often as much as twice the size of their female counterparts.

Apart from displaying his feathers and train, he will also guard his territory and make loud noise to ward off other males.

While a group of any peafowl is called a harem, a group of females are known as a bevy, a muster or a party when they are in groups without the males.