A few days ago I was cycling along Oxford St by the Cook Street Village when I saw the strangest thing: two police officers putting a peacock in a ‘paddy wagon’. (Side note: peacocks are the flashy males, peahens are females, and known collectively as peafowl, but I’ll use the term peacock for the purpose of this piece, though technically incorrect.) I stopped to ask what’s up, and apparently this fine feathered fellow had been jumping onto the hoods of parked cars and doing a bit of damage with their claws, and they were going to return him to Beacon Hill Park a few blocks away. I asked if they happened to know who to call for matters relating to peacocks, and they confirmed the confounding experience I had several months ago when I tried to help out what appeared to be a lost peacock (up on Broughton St at…
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