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The peacock is the largest poultry of the same family, the male with a long, colorful tail feathers that, when spread out to show off, the female is very beautiful, called "Pan."

The peacock, using the genus name Pavo, prefers to live in arid and mixed deciduous forests along the edges of streams in the forest, behaving often at dawn or dusk, eating seed foods, insects and small animals. It is distributed in northern India eastwards through Burma, southern China, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia and Java.

Peacocks can be divided into two types:

The Indian peacock (Pavo cristatus) has a crest on its head spread into a fan, with white cheek side leather, blue upper neck and chest feathers, found spreading in India.

The Thai peacock (Pavo muticus) has a crest on its upright head in clusters, the cheek side leather is blue and yellow, the neck feathers, the back, forever to the tip of its tail are green, found spreading from eastern Chong India with Burma, the Indochina region and Java.

In the belief of the Lanna, the peacock is a pang of the Buddha.