Forget llamas and emus — If I had a million dollars, I'd buy you a peacock!

I visited my sister this weekend. Her neighbor keeps several peafowl that roam freely in the field behind their houses. Sometimes they strut by to say hello.

You would have thought we were at Malfoy Manor instead of along the interstate in semi-rural Kentucky!

Fun fact: The call of a peacock sounds like a distressed cat.

Educational fact: The female peafowl is called a peahen and only the male is called a peacock.

Tangential fact: This weekend I also realized and lamented the lack of a singular gender-neutral word for a bovine animal, other than cow (which technically means a female mother). Wikipedia articulately details this English language oversight and suggests "cattle beast" as the term I seek.