Comic #2927: 2013-05-23
Description
Panel 1:
- Character 1 (left) is speaking: “It’s called ‘Zahavi handicapping’; basically, an animal will have a trait or behavior that is burdensome in order to show potential mates that it is high quality.”
- Character 2 (right) is listening.
Panel 2:
- Character 1 continues: “For example, a high quality peacock can afford to put lots of calories into beautiful plumage. It has to eat more and be more conspicuous to predators, but this signals to peahens that it is a superior mate.”
Panel 3:
- Character 1 (left) remarks: “Ha! Animals are weird.”
- Character 2 (right) responds: “Yeah. Hey, did I mention I took on $200,000 in debt for a degree in psychology?”
Panel 4:
- Character 2 replies: “That is so hot.”