The Cock, the Dog and the Fox The Cock, the Dog and the Fox The Cock, the Dog and the Fox is one of Aesop's Fables and appears as number 252 in the Perry Index. Although it has similarities with other fables where a predator flatters a bird, such as The Fox and the Crow and Chanticleer and the Fox, in this one the cock is the victor rather than victim. There are also Eastern variants of this story. In the Greek story, a cock and a dog go on a journey together. At night, the cock roosts in a tree while the dog curls up at
Andean cock-of-the-rock 1790. It is classified in the Cotingidae, a family of largely frugivorous tropical forest suboscine passerines. The generic name is derived from the Latin stems "rupes" "rock" or "cliff", and "cola" "inhabiting", and is derived from its habit of nesting in rock walls. Its specific epithet "peruvianus" "of Peru" is masculine despite the -"a" ending of the genus name (in Latin, names in "-cola" were masculine or neuter); "peruviana" is seen in older works. Four subspecies are known: The Andean cock-of-the-rock is a large passerine, approximately long and weighing around , although males are somewhat larger and the heaviest specimens