Rooster other calls as well, and can cluck, similar to the hen. Roosters occasionally make a patterned series of clucks to attract hens to a source of food, the same way a mother hen does for her chicks. Rooster crowing contests are a traditional sport in several countries, such as Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, the United States, Indonesia and Japan. The oldest contests are held with longcrowers. Depending on the breed, either the duration of the crowing or the times the rooster crows within a certain time is measured. A capon is a castrated rooster. In the caponization procedure, the bird's
The Tale of the Golden Cockerel The Tale of the Golden Cockerel The Tale of the Golden Cockerel () is the last fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin wrote the tale in 1834 and it was first published in literary magazine "Biblioteka dlya chteniya" ("Library for Reading") in 1835. While not officially based on any specific fairy tale, a number of similar stories were later revealed by scholars, most famously by Anna Akhmatova in her 1933 essay "Pushkin's Last Fairy Tale". Among the influences named were the "Legend of the Arabian Astrologer" from "Tales of the Alhambra" by Washington Irving, "Der goldene Hahn" (1785)