>>25582683 There clearly has to be more to it than just darwinism. Everyone knows the Fisherian runaway theory with peacocks, but there are tons of birds that have these elaborate colors and feathers that clearly do not confer any survival advantage, and sometimes even impede it. Saying it started as a beneficial survival trait seems unsatisfactory to me, if that were the case every bird in the jungle would just have some camo pattern. It's interesting because unlike mammals birds can't reprodu…