Chanticleer and the Fox the question of its origin. It has also been asserted that the tale has developed out of the basic situation in Aesop's fable of The Fox and the Crow. Early examples of the story are pithily fabular but towards the middle of the 12th century it appears as an extended episode of the "Reynard cycle" under the title "How Renart captured Chanticleer the cock" ("Si comme Renart prist Chanticler le Coq"). The work of which it was part was immensely popular and spread widely in translation. The basic situation concerns the cock Chanticleer, who lives with his three wives 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