Seton's drawing of a peacock train is remarkable for its detail and elegant geometry. Seton began his celebrated career as an illustrator of wildlife, not as a writer.
斯顿画的孔雀开屏图画是非凡的,因为他用文雅的几何图形细致地描绘出来。斯顿开始了他作为野生动植物图解者的著名职业,而不是画家。
During courtship the crested male common peacock displays his elongated upper tail coverts-a magnificent green and gold erectile train adorned with blue-green eyes-before the duller-plumaged peahen.
当求爱时期,有冠毛的普通雄性孔雀会拉长上部隐蔽的羽毛——一种竖立的华丽绿色和金色羽毛与蓝绿色的眼睛结交——站在羽毛色泽呆滞的雌孔雀面前。
In an 1860 letter Charles Darwin despaired over how natural selection could account for such an impediment to flight as a peacock 's train.
1860年,查尔斯·达尔文曾在一封信中沮丧的表示,自然选择无法解释雄孔雀尾屏的存在,因为它极大的拖累了飞行。
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