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Posted: 03 Oct 2023

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Abbott Thayer believed even the peacock's plumage was a form of camouflage

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 Dinesh
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In the corner of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, around a bend and through a series of clear, elegant rooms, lies one of the most remarkable paintings of peacock you will ever come across. What is unique about this large oil painting is that you can barely see the bird at all. On the quick glance this picture looks just like an ordinary woodland, leaves green and yellow glinting in the sun, a fragment of blue sky peeking through. Only if you gaze at the painting a bit carefully will you see that there is a peacock in this forest, nearly totally camouflages in the morning sun. ~ Page 132

Hence the invisible peacock in the temperate forest (a habitat, incidentally, far removed from the appearance of the woods in the bird’s native India). . . . .~ Page 134

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