Can an eagle hunt a peacock? Why?

The peacock and the tiger have one thing in common: they are both kings, the tiger is the "king of all animals", and the peacock is the "king of all birds", but its "king" has a fundamental difference, the tiger is my strength to get this title, while the peacock is by "beauty". The tiger is my strength to get this title, while the peacock is by "beauty", in birds, the real strength to get "king" is the eagle.

So, what happens when these two "kings of birds" meet? Let's look at the interaction between the two from a practical point of view

The interaction between peacocks and eagles

In most eagles' recipes, birds are included, and any bird smaller than an eagle can be their target. There are exceptions, of course, such as flocks of magpies that can repel eagles and night owls that can even sneak up on eagles at night.

However, from the viewpoint of the ecological position of the sky, members of the eagle-shaped order are at the top of the food chain. On the contrary, peacocks are different, they are omnivorous, mainly feeding on plant seeds, fruits, insects, rodents, and frogs, and their ecological status is much lower than that of eagles. Despite this, the two rarely interact in nature for the following three reasons.

First: the habitat.

Eagles belong to the sky raptors, but most of their food comes from the ground, therefore, eagles have a pair of sharp eyes, which have large pupils, allowing more light into them, and there is a high density of photoreceptor cells, allowing eagles to see more details, while eagles have four types of visual cone cells, in addition to red, blue, green, like we have three kinds of visual cone cells, there is a can see ultraviolet light cone cells, so the world in their eyes than we not only clear but also more colorful.

The key is that the eagle's eyes have two central foveae (fovea, located in the center of the retina), the two central foveae are deep and shallow, the shallow can see the details of near things, and the distance can be like a magnifying glass, the distant things magnified, which makes the eagle can see more than 3000 meters away from the land running hare.

It is because of this that eagles will hover high in the sky, searching for animals moving on the ground, and then use high-speed dives to catch and kill their prey.

However, although eagles have keen vision, they also have a disadvantage: over-reliance on open areas for food, because once there is grass and trees in the shade, the animal in which the activity is not easy to be found.

As the only two remaining species of peacocks in the genus Pheasant, the blue and green peacocks are typical land birds, which are mainly active on the ground.

Secondly, the choice of the habitat of peacocks is more inclined to the forests in hilly areas, and they also appear in dense bushes and deciduous forests, and these environments are not conducive for eagles to find them in the air. an excellent protective color.

In addition, peacocks usually seldom run away, but slowly and lowly for food, rather than running out of the hole like a hare, moving more slowly, which is also not conducive to eagles to find them, after all, the eagle's will be fixed objects identified as grass and trees.

Finally, it is the size of the body. The eagle hunting prey is often small, after all, to hunt too large animals, they do not have the grip to mention them in the air, which is not quite in line with the eagle will take prey to high, relatively safe places to feed habits. The peacock is not the ideal prey, partly because it is also a flocking bird, and partly because male peacocks have a long tail feather with an eye-like pattern on it.

In the eyes of the eagle in the sky, the peacock is a behemoth, and a behemoth with multiple eyes, which is also not in line with the eagle's choice of prey size. Moreover, the peacock's average weight of 4 kg and a maximum of 6.5 kg is already comparable to the largest extant eagle-eating ape eagle.

Therefore, in nature, eagles and peacocks do not intersect, their survival environment is more different, and survival habits also determine the eagle is extremely difficult to find the peacock, the choice of prey size and the characteristics of the peacock's long and wide tail feathers but also decided that the eagle will not take the peacock as prey.

If you have to fight, who is the more powerful eagle or the peacock?

Eagles are good at hunting by stealth, or rather by air, which is very dependent on not being discovered by the prey, and once discovered, even a hare can escape with a "rabbit stomp".

The peacock as a bird, is not only very alert but also has very good vision, their eyes can reach even case the neck does not move to see around about 260 ° range, in addition, they are often alert to raise their heads to look around, so the eagle wants to sneak up on the peacock is very difficult.

In this premise, the peacock's ability to run, with the ability to fly is not strong and can easily avoid the eagle's attack, so the main battlefield can only be put on the ground.

To the ground, the eagle is not the peacock's opponent, because the eagle's claw form is suitable for grasping, but not for walking on flat ground, while the peacock's ability on the ground is not affected in any way, so the eagle lost its strongest weapon - claw grasp. The peacock can only use its beak to duel. Compared to its beak, the peacock is not much worse than the eagle, because, in the peacock's recipe, it also contains rats, frogs, and other meat, and in its country of origin, the peacock can even take cobras as prey, which shows its agility and aggressiveness.

In addition, the peacock will open its screen to intimidate the opponent, so that the peacock, which has the advantage in imposing, size, and fighting environment (ground), is not the eagle that can beat.

Summing up

It can be seen that the peacock's title of king of all birds is not only based on face value, they can also hunt rats and even cobras in nature, which is also considered fierce bird. However, land birds flying birds, peacocks, and eagles in the natural environment is not much intersection, if you have to fight, if the eagle can sneak attack successfully, a claw can kill the peacock, but once found or to the ground, is the world of peacocks.