What is a peacock? Detailed answer

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What is a peacock?

There are about 50 varieties of peacocks in the world, but they all live on the tropical islands of the western Pacific and in northern Australia. The sizes of peacocks fluctuate between the sizes of a sparrow and a crow. Each type of peacock has a special "diamond" pattern. It is this bright color of plumage that makes these birds so unusual. But in fact, these magnificent creatures are relatives of the common crow.

The first Europeans to discover the peacock were the Dutch pioneers in the XNUMXth century. The birds looked so beautiful that the travelers called them birds of paradise (as they are called in English - "bird of paradise"). The famous colorful feathers are only found in male peacocks. Why they are needed is still unknown. Maybe to attract a female or distract the enemy from a nest with chicks.

Most peacocks build fragile, flat nests in the tops of trees. There they lay spotted eggs with streaks. Peacocks eat almost everything they can find, from fruits to snails and insects.

During the mating season, males show off their feathers in front of females. These usually wary birds are so addicted to such games that they let hunters in very close range. Locals shoot peacocks with blunt arrows so as not to damage the plumage.

Author: Likum A.

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What is the twenty-fifth frame?

For the first time this term appeared in the middle of the last century in the United States and referred to cinema.

The fact is that the film camera and, accordingly, the projection camera advance the film at a speed of 24 frames per second. But in 1957, a curious experiment was set up in the USA: the film was promoted a little faster - 25 frames per second, and a film was shot on 24 of them, and an advertisement for puffed corn (popcorn) on the 25th. People could not see this advertisement, because visual perception has a number of limitations, including temporary ones. However, at the end of the film, most of the audience went to buy popcorn.

Advertising, therefore, was nevertheless perceived, but not by the consciousness, but by the subconscious. And, like any appeal to the subconscious, this phenomenon represented a certain danger.

So far, this has been limited to cinema, but the danger has been mostly abstract: editing was done by hand, which is quite difficult and expensive, and therefore it did not make sense to use it. In our time, the situation has changed dramatically. Filming is now carried out not on film, but on videotape, and for editing there are very effective computer technologies with the richest possibilities.

Therefore, the danger of using hidden frames (not necessarily "twenty-fifths") has increased immeasurably.

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