Peacock Pandemonium: The Wildest Solution to Florida's Feathered Frenzy!

"What happens when a Florida suburb is overrun by peacocks?" This episode of The Ben and Skin Show dives into the bizarre and hilarious world of peacock vasectomies. Join hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray as they explore the unconventional methods used to control the peacock population in a Miami suburb.Discover how peacocks have become a colorful nuisance, climbing roofs, fighting each other, and screaming at all hours of the night.Learn about the innovative approach by local exotic animal vet, Don Harris, who has performed vasectomies on nearly 400 male peacocks to prevent them from reproducing. Enjoy the hosts' witty banter and laugh-out-loud moments as they discuss the peacocks' behavior, including their tendency to fight their own reflections in car doors.Notable Quotes:

• "The balls are never in play. Really? Yeah. They're neglected. They're neglected."
• "This doctor runs through peacocks like Bonnie Blue."
• "These idiots are looking at themselves in a car. They're dumb."

Memorable Moments:

• The hosts' humorous take on the peacocks' intelligence (or lack thereof) and their aggressive behavior.
• A resident's nostalgic reflection on the days before peacocks overtook the neighborhood, when herons and ibises were the dominant birds.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well the.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Wildlife.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
He's got like a fake sitar.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yeah, I love it so good, all right, CNN has
some audio. There's a there's a neighborhood in Florida that's
been taken over and ravaged by peacocks, but they have
a solution.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
A Florida suburb is preventing peacock pregnancies by giving the
colorful birds v sectimes. Peacocks, typically known for their color
and beauty, are also known in this Miami suburb as
a nuisance, climbing roofs, fighting each other and screaming at
all hours of the night, and they keep reproducing. Local

(00:45):
exotic animal vet Don Harris came up with a program
to slow the growing bird population by giving the male
peacocks vaseectomes.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
When I go in and inspect them internally, there is
absolutely no scarring, no infection, no irritation, inflammation, nothing. This
is as benign a procedure as we could.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Possibly hope for so thin his team is operated on
almost four hundred male peacocks and say they've had no complications.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
The vad's actomy merely disconnects the testicle from the rest
of the reproductive track. We don't remove the testicle, so
we don't eliminate any of the secondary sex characteristics. He
retains his beauty, he retains his tail, he retains his dominance.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
That guy is saying that the male there's always a
dominant one. That guy's climing that the male is always
the dominant one. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Times have change, sir, Really, not with peacocks, not in
bird culture. Yeah, what are you looking for reverse peacock.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
No, I'm just saying there's nothing with me. I'm just
saying it's I think it's a little presumptuous to be
like these males they get their dominance back, because that's
the way it's always been.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Oh you know, I'll say this. This is why I'm
on board. What's the name of the scientist, Dan Harris,
I'm on board. I'm on board with Dan Harris. And
the main reason, the main reason I'm on board with
him is that I've done a lot of studying in
the sexual activities of peacocks. The balls are never in play. Really, Yeah,

(02:17):
they're neglected. They're neglected and they're an afterthought and the
peacock does not care. So if this is going to
shrink the peacock population in Florida. I don't think there's
any losers here. Yeah, this doctor runs through peacocks like
Bunnie Blue. The only the only loser is the peacock

(02:38):
who thinks he's still functioning down there, and he's not.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
He's he's still he's still got it.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
He still is, but nothing's happening, you know.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, well it still happens, but there's just no sperm. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
What did you say, whatever the peacocks use for sperm, Yeah,
it could be different from them, right, did you guys
understand Ben's reference?

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah? No, it's the gall who took on like a
hundred guys and then those hundred guys took on a gorilla.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Okay, that is incredible wildlife work.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
But did you guys think peacocks are smart?

Speaker 3 (03:18):
No?

Speaker 1 (03:18):
No, no, that's why they peacock.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
One resident of pine crises. The peacocks have overtaken other
birds native to the area. I know, it's really hard
for it to understand for people who don't live here,
how annoying they are. But when I was growing up,
there were no peacocks. You know, we have we our
neighborhoods were full of herons, blue herons, and ibises. Not
only is the noise of problem for residents, the peacocks
can be aggressive if they feel threatened.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
A male will fight for his territory, even to the
extent of attacking his own reflection in a car These idiots.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
So can you ever see that the video that went
viral of the guy that was so drunk he was
an old man at a bar and he starts fighting
his reflection like that?

Speaker 2 (04:09):
So good?

Speaker 3 (04:10):
Did?

Speaker 1 (04:10):
I don't can you play the beginning of that audio?

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Did?

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Did the peacock drop a bunch of books? I don't
understand what that sound was.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
The peacocks can be aggressive if they feel threatened.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
I's that al hit the window again, so that we
just learned that they stared themselves in the reflection of
a car and try to fight each other.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
They're dumb.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Listen to this next guy.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
Though, even to the extent of attacking his own reflection
in a car door.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
They're very smart. So if they they're not smart smart
see something that they don't like, they're not going to
come near you.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
You know.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
If you're a peacock, though, you're probably trying to schedule
that misectomy around like planet Earth or something or I
don't know what their favorite sport.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Do one more thing, quickly play the very beginning of this,
because five seconds into this this lady play the lady.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
A Florida suburb is preventing Pico pregnancies.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Stop.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
I thought that was AI like her, I know it's not,
but like her, Cadence was like, oh, it's an AI report.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Why she talked?

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Funny? All right, there you have it with the mute
on it. There's wildlife news, the wildlife news, all right.
Coming up next in the weekly weekday Update, we have
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(05:40):
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