Friday, 24 July 2015

Bossy rooster takes lead vocal of cock-a-doodle-do


Date: July 24, 2015

Source: Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University

Summary:  From ancient times, people have been aware of the rooster's "cock-a-doodle-do" that marks the break of dawn, but has anyone wondered who crows first? In a new study, biologists have revealed that there is actually a systematic rule based on social ranking that determines the order of crowing in roosters.

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