Today, West Africa is home to some of the poorest nations in the world. But from the 8th century to the 16th, things were very much different. The kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai were dazzling pinnacles of wealth and culture.
Often brightly colored with large, fan-like tails that can span 60 inches, peacocks are the male members of a species of bird in the same family as the pheasants native to North America. Peacocks are often kept as pets or farmed for their beautiful tail feathers, which have made them a national symbol in India.he green peafowl is native to Burma and Java, while the blue comes from India and Sri Lanka. These countries are home to a wide range of large hunters, and peacocks have fallen prey to the likes of large jungle cats such as leopards and tigers, but also to smaller animals, like the mongoose or stray dogs.
Courtship behaviour of peacocks. Intermediate Tier. The peacock (the male peafowl) is immediately recognisable to most people because of his extravagant train or tail, see Figure 1. When the train is exposed in the breeding season it is a large, colourful and impressive signal to a female of his readiness to mate.