
If I were a White Peacock.....!!!!
I would flaunt my feathers and put women's make up to shame.....
I would walk the green lawns.. up the bushes.... dance around..... like the puffed clouds would want to melt down!
... like the sun would go red not knowing if he's more beautiful or me!
The radiant rainbow would think 'why am I not white'!!!
I would never ever come back to an enclosure where man lives...
If.. if.. if..... If I were a white peacock......
I wonder if a white peacock would ever think 'If I were a human'!!
Never!!!!!!!
If only it did think so, I'd want to trade places with it!!
I'm silently wishing a white peacock would read this -- "Dear White Peacock... If you ever happen to read this.. please let me be you... Even if it's for a day..." :-)
A Biotechnologist like me, or for that matter anybody who knew what an 'albino' means, would mistake the white peacock for an albino!
The first time I came to see this ANGEL white peacock, the very first thought was that it had biologically inherited a recessive gene that results in absence of pigmentation!
I was so wrong!!!!
The white peacock is a color variety of Indian Blue Peacock!
Looks magnificent and elegant indeed!
Then did I realize that the plumage needn't always be brilliantly colored to be beautiful!!!
I'd known that the brilliant colors of the peacock plumage are due to an optical interference phenomenon based on periodic nanostructures found in the barbules of the feathers. The hues which shimmer and change with viewing angle is because of interference-based structural color!
But simply because the nanostructures in the barbules of the feather differ, the white peacock is white!!!!
Hats-off to NATURE and its splendid beauty!!!
After sometime, I realized another fact... Beauty was only one part of the story! The other part was "GOOD LUCK" associated with the white peacock!!!!!!!
They say it's lucky. Traditionally, if anyone saw a white peacock, the fortune would turn better!
And why not, it is an ANGEL! Childlike wishes and deeds like this are acceptable.. If and only if it doesn't cause harm to the birds! (for that matter even animals and every other creature on earth)
I was quite taken aback when I read this --- There are people ready to pay lakhs for a single white feather of this White beauty!!!! :-O
And there are websites that commercialize it too!!!!
O MAN!!!! It is detestable if it caused harm to these innocent angels!!
Shame on man!!
Here's earnestly hoping and wishing all those causing harm to animals/birds would be sued to death.. by law... by Nature.... by other fellow beings who care for wildlife.. by whatever means!!
white peacock pictures allashTe noDiddeeni iduvaregu.. pratyakshadalli nODilla... aadre aa color details ella gottirlilla :) chennagide...
nange aa peacocks na aLisi haako prayatna naDeetirodu gottirlilla.. adu teeraa khanDaneeya anta heLbodu.. manushyanige yaako tumba keTTa buddhi.. :( devre kaapaadbeku...
"Here's earnestly hoping and wishing all those causing harm to animals/birds would be sued to death.. by law... by Nature...."
correct-u.. naanoo adanne aashistini... hegu adu naDde naDiyutte.. yaakandre ade prakruti niyama..
ಗಂಡಭೇರುಂಡ said...
November 2, 2007 5:40 PM
aha en super idhe....navilu...wonderphull... :-) ninna techical explanations of the color nan GK improve maadthu.. :-)
First photo sikkaapatte chennagidhe..... :-)
Prakruthi nijakkoo bahaLa kutoohalakaaari :-)
Sridhar said...
November 2, 2007 7:31 PM
continuing the last comment : aa daridra website ge ondu nikrustavaada dhikkaaravirali....
!@$%#^&*&*******.....
Sridhar said...
November 2, 2007 7:32 PM
Hey Dynamo, en barithya?? oLLe Dynamic aagidhe.. White peacock nodidhmele I jus wanted to say one thing... "U can never be like that".. :) Keep bombing Dynamo.. Wil be waiting for another Animal Planet documentry..
Radha..
Anonymous said...
November 2, 2007 8:37 PM
@Gandabherunda ::
Hu Srinivas.. "kett mele buddi bantu" antaare.. aadre manshange kett mEluuu buddi baralla!!
bariii pics alle nODkobekaag barbOdhu isht wonderful creatures na!! :( :( :(
@Sridhar ::
GKless Sridharaaa... improve aaythaapaa GK?? :) :) good good!!
Aa pic na save maadko!
!@$%#^&*&*******.....
nandu ondh kyi nin kyi mele!!
@Radha ::
Thanku ma Radha...
howduuu "U can never be like that".. andre enu :(( :((
hehe
"Keep bombing Dynamo.." --- hahaaa
PraaNi himse maaDo paapi dootharige bomb haakana antideeni!! Innu yaaryaar mElO haakadide!! :) :)
Dynamic Divya said...
November 2, 2007 9:24 PM
Nice and informative! Keep going...
Srikanth - ಶ್ರೀಕಾಂತ said...
November 2, 2007 11:45 PM
@Srikanth ::
Thanku reeee
"keep going..." --- hOgthaa iru andrenu... hehee
Dynamic Divya said...
November 3, 2007 2:23 AM
hi akka.......
temme 1 ting ver ll u get idea of writtin these articals da........
wats d secret behind it plzz let m knw na.... 1 if u writ k, 2 not bad bt u wrote more than 10.. huff god bless u 10 times more yaar... tc......
bablu said...
November 3, 2007 10:11 PM
Nice Pic Divya
Anokh D Shetty said...
November 5, 2007 3:29 PM
@Bablu ::
:-) Thanku beta for ur wishes!!
And shshhhhhhh secrets are not to be told here bro!! ;-)
@Anokh ::
Yes Anokh, nice pics and which is why I couldn't resist putting them here!!
Dynamic Divya said...
November 5, 2007 7:58 PM
@dynamic - keep going in this sense means "keep doing the good work you have done till now"
@bablu - if you want to write such articles you need
1. a cup of horlicks
2. a clear night sky to gaze at the stars
3. some naughty and childish ideas at times
4. the curiosity of a bird watcher
the patience of a spider
5. the eyes of an eagle
the passion, love and respect to everything natural
6. the ability to appreciate and savour god's godly creations which are no less than supreme...
and the list goes on...
Srikanth - ಶ್ರೀಕಾಂತ said...
November 5, 2007 8:11 PM
@Srikanth ::
:D gottaythu keep going du, aadru sumne reelu!
^:)^ elllllllaaa points gu nan sammatha!! First one biTTu!!!!! X(
"a cup of horlicks" X(
Amele aa ellaaa 5 points nu kaliteeni.... :-)
Nice points!!!!
Dynamic Divya said...
November 6, 2007 2:41 AM
hey dynamic poetess, excellent work,go on,continue entertaining us like this.u r a mobile encyclopedia,amazing thoughts.Keep it up.
leo26online said...
November 6, 2007 3:48 AM
@leo26online ::
:-)
"entertaining us like this.u r a mobile encyclopedia" --- See how I read it.....
entertaining encyclopedia using mobile??!! hehee.. nonsense PJ!! hmm ya yaaa I know!
Thanku dearest!!! Thanks for ur appreciation and for making time to read this, in ur busy schedule! :-)
Dynamic Divya said...
November 7, 2007 4:44 AM
ಶ್ವೇತನವಿಲಿನ ಬಗ್ಗೆ genetic explanation ಕೊಟ್ಟಿರೋದು ಮಜವಾಗಿದೆ.. ಅದೇನು ಡ್ರೋಸೋಫಿಲಾ ಮೆಲೆನೋಗಾಸ್ಟರ್ರಾ?? :-)
ವಿಪರ್ಯಾಸ ಅಂದರೆ ಶ್ವೇತಮಯೂರ ನಮ್ಮ ಕಾಡಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಇಲ್ಲವೇ ಇಲ್ಲವೆಂಬುದು.. ಸಾಧಾರಣ ನವಿಲು ಕೂಡ ತನ್ನ ಸಂತತಿಯನ್ನು ಬೆಳೆಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಹೆಣಗಾಡುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಚಿತ್ರಗಳಲ್ಲಿ, ಬ್ಲಾಗುಗಳಲ್ಲಿ, ಪುಸ್ತಕಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಇನ್ನಷ್ಟು ಬರೆಯುವವರು ಸಿಕ್ಕರೆ ನಮ್ಮ ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಗೆ at least ಇದನ್ನೆಲ್ಲಾ ತೋರಿಸಿ "ಇದೇ ನವಿಲು... ನಾನು ಟ್ರೆಕ್ಕಿಂಗ್ಗೆ ಹೋಗ್ತಾ ಇದ್ದಾಗ ಎಷ್ಟೊಂದು ನೋಡ್ತಾ ಇದ್ದೆ.." ಅಂತ ಹೇಳಬಹುದು..
ಚೆಲುವನ್ನು ಬಣ್ಣಿಸಿ ಸ್ಪೀಷೀಸನ್ನು ಉಳಿಸುವ ಯತ್ನ ಪ್ರಶಂಸನೀಯ.. ವೆರಿ ಗುಡ್..
Parisarapremi said...
November 8, 2007 1:03 PM
"ಅದೇನು ಡ್ರೋಸೋಫಿಲಾ ಮೆಲೆನೋಗಾಸ್ಟರ್ರಾ??" -- Drosophila melanogaster ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮಾತ್ರ genetic explanation ಕೊಡಬೇಕು ಅನ್ನೋದು ಯಾವ್ rule ರೀ??!!
ಯಾವ species ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಬೇಕಾದರೂ genetic explanation ಕೊಡಬಹುದು!
ಸದ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ವಿಪರ್ಯಾಸ ಅಂದ್ರೆ 'ನಮ್ಮ ಕಾಡಿನಲ್ಲಿ' ಶ್ವೇತಮಯೂರ ಇಲ್ಲದಿರುವುದು... ಇನ್ನೂ ವಿಪರೀತ ವಿಪರ್ಯಾಸ ಅಂದ್ರೆ 'ಕಾಡಿನಲ್ಲೇ' ಶ್ವೇತಮಯೂರ ಇಲ್ಲದಿರುವುದು!!!!!
On the brink of extinction!! :-(
ella species, natural habitatsಗಳನ್ನು ಉಳಿಸುವ, ರಕ್ಷಿಸುವ ಪ್ರಾಮಾಣಿಕ ಯತ್ನ ನನ್ನ ನಿಮ್ಮೆಲ್ಲರ ಆದ್ಯ ಕರ್ತವ್ಯವಾಗಲಿ!! :-) :-)
Dynamic Divya said...
November 8, 2007 3:35 PM
aa nittinalli 50rs kelsa na maadabaardu nodi...
Parisarapremi said...
November 10, 2007 10:03 AM
@Parisarapremi ::
biLi naviluuuuuuuuuuuuu ellO oooo...
50rs-u ellO ooooo.... ooo..
(madhya madhya gottilla :D song-u)
50rs yennuuvaaaa aaaa.. maatalli entha mODiyO...
'50rs' na trademark maaDkoLi neevu!!
elelllgO connection kottu heLtaa iri 50rs 50rs anta!!!
Wildlife conservation, praaNipremada bagge maataaDta irovaaga '50rs' matter tarO bhoopati ganDu taavu!!
Karmakarma!!!!
Dynamic Divya said...
November 10, 2007 2:42 PM