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正在打鸣的公鸡。

公鸡指的是鸡形目中的雄性,一般指雄性的

英语中,雄性的鸡小于一岁一般叫做“cockerel”。“rooster”一词起源于美国[1]如今已在北美洲澳大利亚新西兰广泛使用。[2]“cock”和“cockerel”则是英语中最原始的词汇,用于英国爱尔兰[3]

公鸡遵循多配偶制,但无法同时守卫数个窝的蛋。公鸡守卫自己母鸡正在造鸟窝的整个区域,并攻击进入这个区域的其他公鸡。在白天,公鸡常常栖息于高处,通常距离地面有0.9至1.5米高,以警卫自己的族群。若食肉动物在附近,公鸡会发出独特的报警声。

打鸣

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公鸡打鸣声

公鸡一般在其出生后四个月内开始打鸣。虽然母鸡也可能会打鸣,但打鸣(和鸡冠发育)是公鸡的最明显特征。[4]

公鸡一般被描绘成在破晓的时候打鸣。虽然许多公鸡在醒来后不久就开始打鸣,这说法并不准确:公鸡可以并且可能在一天里的任何时间打鸣。一些公鸡尤为吵闹,几乎无时无刻不在打鸣,而另一些公鸡则一天内仅仅打鸣了很少次。这取决于公鸡的种类和个体性质。我们常常会看见公鸡坐在栅栏和其他一些物体上,打鸣以宣示自己领地。

公鸡也会发出数种其他的叫声,也能发出与母鸡类似的咯咯声。公鸡偶尔会模仿母鸡的咯咯声来吸引母鸡过来寻找食物,就像母鸡向小鸡做的那样。

文化

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在一些文化中公鸡被看做是神圣的动物[5],公元前2000至前700年存在于今伊朗的凯扬王朝就已经存在这种崇拜了。[6]

参考资料

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  1. ^ Hugh Rawson页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) "Why Do We Say...? Rooster", American Heritage, Aug./Sept. 2006.
  2. ^ Search results: Rooster. The New Zealand Herald. [15 March 2010]. (原始内容存档于2016-08-27). ; Search results: Cockerel. The New Zealand Herald. [15 March 2010]. (原始内容存档于2016-08-27). , though the results for "Rooster" are heavily affected by a rugby team of that name.
  3. ^ poultry.ie. [2017-01-26]. (原始内容存档于2010-05-01). 
  4. ^ Read, Gina. Sexing Chickens. Keeping Chickens Newsletter. keepingchickensnewsletter.com. [5 July 2008]. (原始内容存档于2017-06-30). 
  5. ^ Jerry Adler; Andrew Lawler. How the Chicken Conquered the World. Smithsonian. June 2012 [2018-10-29]. (原始内容存档于2020-11-24). 
  6. ^ Maneckji Nusservanji Dhalla. Zoroastrian Civilization – From the Earliest Times to the Downfall of the last Zoroastrian Empire 651 A.D.. Oxford University Press. 1922. 
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