Question

White peacock is a _________.
A) Indian Blue peafowl
B) Indian Red peafowl
C) Indian White peafowl
D) Indian Black peafowl

Answer 1

Hint:
The males are called a peacock, while the females are called peahens and peafowl is generally referred to birds of both the sexes. Peafowl originated in and around Ceylon and India but when the Britishers came to India, they spread peafowl all over America and Europe. Suddenly, white peafowl began to appear and are now bred for that colour in captivity.

Complete Answer:
The white peacocks are often perceived to be an albino peafowl. It is a bird of ethereal beauty and elegance. But it is not an albino; it is only a variant of the Indian blue. In the peafowls bred in captivity, a wide variety of colour patterns have appeared. They include the white, the pied white, a combination of white and the usual Indian blue colours; the black shoulder peahen, white sprinkled with black spots, and the black shoulder pied, where the colouration is normal except for white wings, under parts, and a spot under the chin.
All their chicks will be white when white peacocks are bred to white peahens. White peafowl also contains the genes for pied and black shoulder colour patterns. A wide variety of colours in the chicks will be obtained if mated to different coloured birds. Peacocks breed only with a harem of up to five peahens.

Thus, option (A) is correct.

Note:
In captivity, there have been peafowls reported to have lived up to 50 years, whereas Peafowl generally lives somewhere between 10 and 20 years in the wild. White peacocks cannot survive in the wild because of their bright white colour that easily catches the attention of predators. Peahens incubate the eggs they lay for nearly a month before they hatch, usually, they lay a “clutch” of about six eggs. Only three days after these chicks have hatched, they are able to fly for short distances. Peacocks do not fly unless they are attacked; when attacked, they fly too high tops like trees.