This is an elegant way to serve a rooster or cockerel - Matt Austin This is an elegant way to serve a rooster or cockerel: the stuffing contains black truffle but if you don’t want the expense of ...

PARIS — Maurice the rooster can keep crowing, a French court ruled Thursday, as it rejected a complaint from neighbors who sued over noise nuisance. Maurice's case and several other lawsuits against ...

A man who shot a neighbour’s noisy rooster and impaled it on an iron bar has been handed a five-month suspended sentence. Marcel, who lived with his owner in the Ardèche in southeast France, was shot ...

Does a rooster intuitively know when to emit a “cock-a-doodle-doo” thanks to an internal timekeeper, or is his crowing a response to the dim light of the rising sun? Roosters do generally crow mostly ...

With its back straight and its head held high, he is the cockerel intent on walking tall. Rather than scratching around in a farmyard and pecking at the ground like any normal rooster, this very ...

From ancient times, people have been aware of the rooster's "cock-a-doodle-do" that marks the break of dawn, but has anyone wondered who crows first? In a new study, biologists have revealed that ...

A French cockerel called Maurice, whose owner was taken to court over his early-morning crowing, has died aged six. Maurice gained international support and became a symbol of the French countryside ...

A rooster called Maurice was Thursday put on trial in western France, in an unusual case that has come to symbolize the divide between urban and rural communities. The copper-feathered cockerel is the ...