ALBUQUERQUE
— Unbeknownst to humans, peacocks may be having infrasonic conversations. New recordings reveal that males showing off their feathers make deep rumbling sounds that are too low pitched for humans to hear.
Other peacocks hear it though, Angela Freeman reported June 13 at the annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society.
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