How fun is your day when your job is to go get the feathers off a peacock?
Fortunately, the good people at Crate and Barrel have found an
important use for these feathers. They were once used to appeal to the peahens (?), but now they can decorate our tree. True, they may be sitting in a box for 99% of the year, but such treasures are not to be shown all the time. Those manbirds are just over-exploiting their best feature (we humans would never be so crass).
