"WHERE are you going, my pretty maid?" "I'm going to the Annex, sir," she said. "What to do there, my pretty maid?" "I 'm going to be cultured, sir," she said. "What are your studies, my pretty maid?" ...

HOW the peacock got his tail is one of natural history’s “Just So” stories that biologists like to think they have cracked. His tail is for showing off to the ladies just how fit he and his genes are.