suspiciousamountofpie asked:
the wikipedia list of animals sounds says that peacocks honk. but i have personally never seen them honk when i am at the zoo. as someone with more insight, do you think they honk?
kedreeva answered:
#like I KNOW peacocks are loud#loud AF#that was the joke I made to my cousin when he was trying to figure out what to get for his chicken flock to help with predators#I said a peacock would be good at alerting BECAUSE of that#but I did NOT expect such a clown ass honk#if clowns could speak that is exactly the sound I would expect to come out of their mouths#has anyone ever seen a clown and a peacock at the same place#maybe they are in fact the same species#I don't think I've ever seen a peacock at a carnival#or a clown at a zoo#maybe there's a reason for that (via @frozenbrimstone)
Listen.... I don't talk about it a lot but.
Every once in a while, you'll just find clown eggs in peafowl nests, much the way cuckoo eggs end up in non-cuckoo bird nests. The cuckoos are not the same bird, obviously, and nor are clowns and peafowl. But, given that peafowl evolved long before clowns, it's safe to say that the honking is a learned behavior for the clowns, passed down from the peafowl that raise them, and taught to one another in the cases where peafowl do not directly raise them.
