As I mentioned in yesterdayâs post about the house where Joan Crawford (aka Faye Dunaway) lived in Mommie Dearest, I have become just a wee-bit obsessed with the 1981 film as well as the 1978 autobiography of Joanâs daughter, Christina Crawford, on which it was based.
The rooster's sexual organ is called a papilla, a small bump inside his cloaca from which semen exits. To mate, a rooster climbs onto the back of a hen, standing on the hen's back and using his wings maintain balance, and forcefully touches his cloaca to hers in what's known as a cloacal kiss.
This trend does not carry over into roosters, however, probably because chickens are land-dwelling birds. In some bird species, the smaller right testes can even compensate if (God forbid) the left one gets damaged. 2) No copulatory organs. As with most bird species, roosters and hens don't have external genitalia.