The Cock, the Dog and the Fox are of La Fontaine's fables, the dog is shown running in from the distance. La Fontaine's version of the fable has also been set by several composers: 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
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