Why Do Roosters Crow in the Morning?
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Next to the bark of a dog or the gentle meowing of a cat, the crow of a rooster is one of the most recognisable animal noises on Earth; but why exactly do roosters feel the need to crow and is there any truth to the idea that they crow more (or only) in the morning?
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Roosters are natural alarm clocks. They helped people wake up in the morning for thousands of years.
Do you have an answer I keep hearing them like 2 00 am until the Sun comes up way before the Sun comes up They won't shut up
@@narrowroadtraveler4167 I think they are set on a different time zone 😉
@@narrowroadtraveler4167 i'm hearing now and it's 6 pm. my neighbor got one like 2 weeks ago and it's keep waking me up around 2am, 4am, and sometimes just randomly. it's annoying as f*ck.
@@dude8273 😀 Welcome to the world of the annoying Roasters or Chickens all through the night 🤔 I think they are actually singing to God or mating or playing some kind of fun Roasters Games or they just like to hear themselves Make noise last but not least that Could be some kind of loud pay back for seeing one of there 🐔 family members killed and put in flour and hot Grease 🤷🏽 I had to look it up I was thinking they only made that noise before the Sun came up I started thinking it was a sign of a bad omen to hear Roasters or Chickens crowing before 🌞 I play the audio Bible on my Bluetooth speaker and drown them out for sleep the buggers sounds like they are far away but that sound echoes right through the apartment , the Bluetooth speaker sometimes it works out to where I forget about em , Nothing much we can do about em but try and ignore em 😀 ear plugs not an option for me if you find a solution ,I don't know what could be done about them I'm sure we are not the only people that are annoyed by em
@@narrowroadtraveler4167 thanks for your suggestions but i do have one of those ear muffs that ppl use it on a gun range. it's somewhat bulky and uncomfortable so i don't use it all the time when going to bed, but i was surprised it completely blocked out rooster's cry last night. i tested it while it was crying so i can confirm it works haha.
And why has a chicken coop got 2 doors? Because if it had 4 it would be a chicken sedan.
*rimshot!*
Oh hi, dad
Sheep, Drum, Snake
Ba-dumm tsss!
@@smudolinithegreatdragobear2433 mate. That's fu*king brilliant!!!!! I knew what you meant straight up, and the dude below making the noise 🤣😂🤣
Roosters, the only alarm clocks that don't have a snooze button. lol
They do have a snooze button but you gotta get another one
Finally someone asking the important questions! Thanks!
I've been asking them to explain moons on outhouse doors for a while. You want to talk about important information.
Now we just need to know why they seem so intent on crossing roads!
Patrick Connors To answer your question: The crescent moon cutout and the star cutout on the door of many outhouses goes back to Colonial times. In a time when few people could read, the crescent moon was the symbol for women while the star cutout was for men.
I saw the heart placed on your post, so I'm pretty sure that they'll be a TIFO video on the subject soon enough!
@@WatchingMyLifeFlashB My first guess was that it has something to do with religion > Islam
Why - how ... who knows. Perhaps a rival religion(Christianity) wanted to show "where islam belongs". In reality, it seems noone knows for sure where that symbol comes from...there are only guesses without much to back it up.
UninstallingWindows My mom grew up on a farm with an outhouse which had to be moved every six moths or so due to the stench. Farmers in America & Canada realistically knew nothing about Islam. Not a thing to do with religion, dear. I'm guessing that you're pretty young. Islam has been on a simmer for so long, but the New World was pretty immune to it until the last couple of decades.
The world's in hyper drive about it, now. Not so, when outhouses were the deal.
Woah. Tough parenting at the end there.
Yeah, seriously. I guess it'd just be better to STFU and watch and learn.
If roosters crow, why don't crows rooster?
They do. We just haven't figured it out yet.
Crows are very smart. Who do you think started the chicken coup?
Because crows murder and give women wrinkles around their eyes instead.
Roosters cock-a-doodle-doo. Crows kaw.
@@padoco73 crows are super smart who do you think came up with the question which came first the chicken or the egg? It's all about deception!
@@orlock20 A Murder of Crows? Say it's not so!
Now I'm curious as to whether the dinosaur ancestors of this animal also crowed. We're accustomed to roosters crowing, but can you imagine a dinosaur doing something similar?
I've seen the dinosaur equivalent in a documentary called Jurassic Park, highly recommended you should check it out, they got some wonderful up close footage.
@@Wheres-my-toes-bro I prefer Caveman starring Ringo Starr. At least in that one the creature actually crowed.
That sounds pretty accurate actually.
Of course they crowed, no different than lions roaring to ward off competition and call for mates.
Likely not or they would be eaten.
No ads, no fluff, quick to the point. This might be the perfect TIFO video.
They crow all the damn time lol
Kristi B Where I used to live, the rooster across the street would often go off at 3 AM. In my new home, it’s the donkey across the street that goes off at 3 AM.
It’s still better than living in a city where car alarms & sirens go off all night long.
@Kristi B If you watch the video, you'll see Simon say that. Repeatedly. Exhaustively even, as if he were expecting that people would see the title and want to post a comment like yours. Looks like he failed to anticipate that people wouldn't actually watch the video before commenting. :/
Nothing is worse than sheep. I HATE sheep. They're Dumb as cows and as noisy as roosters and ate less useful and less valuable. Sheep are a dumb animal.
@@dafttool did you know donkeys don't get lost.
Kristi B lol so true
Oof, that wolves killing their young bonus fact, "if I've told you once I've toLD YOU 10 TIMES BILLY! STOP HOWLING AT THE MOON! I'm gonna kill him Sharon, if he does it one more time I'm gonna kill him."
Of course the howl of a wolf and the quack of a duck echoes. All sounds can echo. Silly that some people believe otherwise.
Another bonus fact, hens cluck little egg songs when they are about to lay… and roosters can and will also sing this egg song when he sees his hens laying. Roosters will also pick out good spots for his hens to lay by doing a little dance (different from mating dance) and make cluck sounds indicating that it is a good safe spot to lay. These behaviors are depending on the breed you have. Our black sexlink rooster doesn’t really do these things unlike our mottled houdan or the black copper maran who are very vocal charismatic boys.
I'm still waiting for that Simon Whistler Whistling video.
Patreon! :-)
Or a video of Simon Whistler whistling at Whistler’s Mother 😂
@@TodayIFoundOut yeah right. And if we pay we getting more Bridge On The River Kwi or a little Flow Rider Whistle. Come on, what we looking at here?
" Bridge On The River Kwi"
That was the Colonel Bogey March.
We have some neighbors about half or three quarters of a mile away that also have roosters. Every morning, they have a 'discussion.' Instead of the 'twilight bark' (101 Dalmatians,) they have the morning crow.
But what ARE they howling at? Bonus fact left me hanging! Lol
How appropriate that there's an animal question from Noah.
*Simon 50 times during the video:* Roosters crow all the time and for any reason.
*Everyone in the comments:* Roosters crow all the time and for any reason.
Hey...I'm in the comments and I didn't say Roosters crow all the time and for any reason.....oh dammit.
And they don't shut up once they start.
Commenters seem to not watch the video but instead first react, trying to sound the smartest.
In Romania, we say that roosters' crows are telling the time, i.e. it usually it's x o'clock when they crow. And I legitimately heard a rooster crow at midnight. Also, moaaaaaaar bloopers.
I was of the opinion one of the reasons for the norning crow was to effectively collect up it's harem. Sort of like a siren at a factory announcing the work day has started. Free range chicken don't allways roost together so it was the roosters method to call them to gather to start the days activities.
The raspberry at the very end had me ROLLING!
I've noticed that my roosters also tend to crow a lot about an hour or so before it gets dark. I dunno if that means anything, but I tend to interpret it as a call to the flock to get ready to roost. As for hens crowing, yep. It's a thing. I have a couple of bantam hens (a gold lace seabright, and a japanese bantam) which are kept separate from the rest of the birds, and one of them will on occasion start crowing, or at the very least will try.
Growing up in the village Roosters were the morning alarm clark and babies sleeping times in the afternoon!!!
The internal clocki is called "circadian rhythm" and while it is fixed, it's external referent is dawn. Experiments that verified this were done on fruit flies and in the mid 1960's on humans to see what would happen in an unchanging environment as part of the human factors protion of the US space program. Those of the fly and humns were very alike showing that this property had evolved very early in the animil kingdom's evolution. As part of my training, I saw a film about the experiments with the fruit fly "Drusophila" and one of my graduate instructors, Dr. Philip Very; Rhode Island College in the 1970's took part in the space program study of circadian rhythm
ive been watching this guys videos for a while now and i think its quite interesting to see the change in the way he conducts himself in the progression of videos. in the top tenz videos it was a bit more awkward and unnatural but in these videos hes super confident and forward and legit has good information to share with the world
the bloopers cracked me up...
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I remember When my little hen tried to crow. It was so adorable.😊
I thought they can’t crow like males
"Cockle-doodle-doo!"
....subtitled "Get off my lawn!"
Dude Simon Wistler, I've been listening to your channel(s) for a couple years now and thank you for useing your linguistic skills to improve, aid and educate others. My apologies if I butchered your last name. Best wishes and please never quit your day job.
I like that you showed bloopers ... So well spoken and accurate makes me think wish i could do that ... Now you look more normal :)
My grandma told me about and old saying: “A whistling woman and a crowing hen always come to some bad end.” Grandma did her part to make this a true statement. Whenever one of her hens started crowing, that one soon ended up on the table for Sunday dinner.
Smart grandma
I once had a rooster that would crow at all hours of the day and night but in particular in the minute I was drifting into sleep. Almost like he knew. Best fried chicken and quiet evenings I ever had.
During the last solar eclipse, my rooster started crowing. Talked with other rooster owners in the area and they experienced the same thing. It was odd.
I like that you guys are including the muck-ups and outtakes at the end...they're really funny and just as interesting
I have several roosters, and I am normally sleeping for the dawn hours, so I never really notice, as I can't hear the ruckus from inside the house, but they seem to crow whenever. I am perceived as head rooster, so, they don't crow too much for me, but often will crow when other people come around. When a car pulls into the driveway, they will often crow, sometimes being more accurate than the dogs and their barking.
Years ago my neighbour had the loudest and earliest rising rooster I have ever experienced. One day I drove past his house and there was a huge sign..”rooster FREE to a good home”. Never heard it again after that day.
They sold it? I would of cut off its head and made a good soup
XD "don't want nyone walking into tha chicken coup(coo)" RUN...THE CHICKENS ARE TAKING OVER!!!!
I do have a rooster leading my flock of hens but the most highest-ranking hen of the bunch also crows sometimes early in the Morning as well.
Love your bloopers at the end. I used to hear crowing all the time as my neighbor raised free-range chickens and roosters which would fly up into the trees and crow every morning.
Please include more outtakes!
For some reason, Simon screwing up is entertaining on a bizarrely intellectual level.
Love the channel, and really like the addition of the blooper reel parts. Keep it up!
Yup, I officially love the bloopers. It's nice to see such a stoic, handsome man in goof up moment. Thanks for being Human. (and not a crow, per say)
I liked this video. we had several chickens growing up and mistakenly, a rooster. It was the torment of my childhood. loud and aggressive.
Hens cluck more and louder in the morning too. We have one hen who gets on top of the highest thing around to crow too.
That's just from merrie melody cartoons..... They Crow all day long..... The only time they stop is when you make them into soup.
Simon thou shalt deny me thrice before the rooster has crowed
I somehow was amused when you said, "female chickens" in lieu of hens. :)
Unfortunately the Americanism of " chickens " meaning hens has swept all before it in recent years. When I was young and listened to Rowan and Martin's Laugh In on BBC 2 , they did a sketch based on Old MacDonald Had A Farm , to which one of them repeatedly retorted " all I got is chickens ". This sounded odd to my ears. My father and his mother in law had lots of hens on their farms - but would never have called them " chickens " , unless they were still under a hen or brood lamp. Now we are stuck with it. What are chickens ( youngsters ) to be called then ? Chicks?
That's like saying a boy cow lol I caught it too
Always good information, thanks Simon and crew !
My mother in law grew up on a farm and she had a rooster that was a ornery little butt. It would chase and spur her siblings and it would crow all the time when it was doing it. It would also crow when it saw her. She says it was a different sounding crow depending what it was doing
"Bird Nerds" is one of the best thing's I've heard lol.
I don't know about this. We have always had chicken and rooster with them but at night the rooster is put into a closed dark box with a dark blanket over then in a dark shed to stop the stupidly early crowing and they won't do anything until the blanket is removed and most don't crow until the box is opened or removed from the shed. This has worked for 50+ roosters myself and my family have owned.
Holy Crow! This video was far more entertaining than I anticipated it would be! And the bloopers? I really hope you continue to show those every once in a while. Seriously though, this was a topic I have always been curious about, even more-so lately because a neighbor of ours has a rooster, and it seems that it will crow whenever it damn well wants to, lol! Thanks again for a very informative video, Simon! ~Susan
we had chickens when I was a child, and our rooster sometimes crowed to a full moon. Also, had a hen who was the "queen" of the harem, but after she disappeared to mind her clutch of eggs, outside the coop, was ostracized by the rooster and other hens upon her return... apparently had lost her rank in the harem... she never did get her rank back, and in her later years started crowing.
So I live near a Rooster(s) and at 5:30'ish am (DST included, is accounted in this theory) they crow, WHY because at 4am (98% of the time depending on acts of God like hurricanes and such) is usually the coldest part of the morning as the sun pushes the lower pressure across the land (As such a "WAVE" it heats up the oceans, earth and everything else that the Sun touches behind the lower pressure and the forward wave builds. This continually happens do to the orbit and Earth's rotation. P.S. it's happening right now. Oh God the Humanity!!!). AnyWay as the the air starts to warm up usually around 5:25'ish am the Roosters begin to wake up and start stirring about which leads to eventual CROWING!
Very nice but the experiments including them crowing when kept in the dark, clearly not outside. In which case they crowed on a 23.8 hour cycle. No Sun involved.
You’re Welcome!
My rooster, "It's morning somewhere!"
I think part of the confusion is that coyotes, unlike wolves, do in fact howl at night. They're not howling at the moon, but at one another -- they're usually either calling to family members so they can be reunited or announcing to rivals that the immediate territory is taken. When I lived in East Texas there was a coyote family nearby and you could hear them calling to one another on occasion.
Cuzican Aerospace Coyotes don’t fear getting jumped like wolves do?
@@fearless4him595 Maybe Eastern coyotes have that concern due to the prevalence of wolves, but Western coyotes only compete against humans and one another. Interestingly, Eastern coyotes show signs of having cross-bred with wolves, and are consequentially large enough to hunt deer.
I heard that the idea of a duck's quack not echoing comes from the fact that a quack pretty much always echoes, so people think they're hearing a clean quack when they're actually hearing an echoing quack.
My rooster crows for no reason all at, all the time, like 50 - 75 times a day/night, Its like he just love doing it. He even crows in his sleep.
Gotta love them bloopers
I'm pleased that the deliciousness of chickens has been established as fact on TIFO.
Every day at the crack of dawn, the boss crows to let all his competitors know he's still the boss.
I haven't watched the video yet, but I can tell you that roosters crow whenever they feel like it -- even in the middle of the night. That really annoys some people, but I just consider it to be part of the ambiance of rural life.
Really enjoy the bloopers as well as the content of your videos.
Thank you for adding the bloopers
Alternative theory, chickens have long since lost their dominion over the skies when they became flightless birds. Interpreting the sunrise as the skies showing off, the sight of it fills them with a towering rage. As they are earthbound the only way they can vent this frustration is by defiantly crowing at the first signs of dawn to announce their intent to one day reclaim their flight.
@Ron Krzaczyk I've had chickens in the past. They seemed perfectly happy up in the trees, or walking around the roof. They definitely didn't climb up there.
The chicken equivalent of sour grapes...fowl skies.
I could certainly see this as the premise to a children's novel. :3 I'm not gonna lie though. . . I would probably read it lol
Hraka.
Its their hate of rabbits.
Thumbnail looks like a political smear on this rooster.
😂😂😂
Username checks out 😜
😂 it really does! 🤣
I can see the ad now "did you know that Mr rooster personally pecks the biscuits out of orphans mouths everyday"
Mr Rooster says he supports the average chicken, he says he supports hen's rights, but did you know, he ones pecked a hen. Mrs Henrietta claims she was bullied by Mr Rooster and his cronies. Mr Rooster also gave grains to support Big Chicken, and stole grains from the baby chicks. Stand up against Mr Rooster, vote for Foghorn Leghorn. (Foghorn) "I say... I... I... Say boy... I'll fight for you."
where I'm from they crow at all times of the day. however while it is still dark they seem to be having a worship chorus each morning. the is a distinct pattern as in this one goes then the other and so on with distinct breaks each lasting about the same time.
Thank you Simon...
I love that you're putting your bloopers in now. 👍
Roasters are God created alarm every damn hour they make noise 😂
As someone who raised chickens growing up, they don't. They crow whenever. Especially at 3am during a full moon and refuse to shut up. And then you spend the rest of the night contemplating whether you want fried chicken, chicken soup, or chicken and dumplings for breakfast.
My current rooster will usually crow only once a day, when he hears me open the door to come out and feed them. A big change from his predecessor, who crowed constantly and was very territorial.
Thank you for the free to me content. I enjoy your uploads very much. Always informative and your screen presence is spot on. In My humble opinion the Discovery Channel , Travel Channel etc would do well to let you have your own show. My sincerest apologies for my grammar and sentence structure....autocorret ruined me.
The end was just like a Business Blaze episode 😂
Loved Simon's bloopers at the end.
Does this mean that if a rooster from Europe moves to America, he will continue to crow at the same time, which is now midnight?
"Damn Yankees will not trick me into believing their sorcery! I know damn well what dawn is, and I'll crow when *I* think it's appropriate!"
lol a 5 minute video - When a rooster crows, he's sending a signal to other roosters that if they trespass, they're asking for a fight. A rooster will often crow from a vantage point above his territory so he can make others more aware of his presence and so that his songs travel farther.
Nice glasses, oh the bloopers are a great touch at the end.
Truly love your channels. The tid bits on this particular one add to my veritable cornucopia of useless knowledge on a daily basis.
5:16 Best Outtake EVER!!!!
"internal body clock..."
whoaa.. sounds cool
Their Chicken Coup Lmao I like the Blooper Reel.
Great Topic Idea
Your bloopers are funny! Keep them!
Thank You Sir!
Have you ever done a video on a dog anticipating his person coming home from work? There's one anecdotal video of a guy who came home early, and his dog seemed to know it, doing his "coming home routine" earlier than normal, coincidental to the early arrival of his person. Thanks.
Wow on the wolves, particularly that howling it a learned behavior.
I love the bloopers, Simon!
Did they try to fly the roosters into another timezone and see if they adjust to the new sunrise ?
I stayed at a campsite once where there was a rooster who crowed from 2am onwards, repeatedly. I thought longingly of stuffing him with Paxo.
I'm a minute in and two things came to me: One someone took the time to study roosters crowing and two, it until 2013 to do so.
I love the bloopers at the end! 😂💛
the outtakes at the end are greatly appreciated ;D
In Nigeria they start crowing around 5am which is the alarm we always use
Given the "dawn chorus" performed by other birds it surely is a general thing for Avians
I enjoy the bloopers as much as the rest of the video. 😜
Love the bloopers at the end. :o)
I found myself at this video because of a really odd set of thoughts in this order:
1: Maybe if I yell as soon as I wake up then I won’t feel like falling back to sleep.
2: If I did that then my roommate would hear it and could use me as an alarm clock lol.
3: is that why roosters crow?
4: maybe their throat feels weird in the morning so they gotta get it warmed up?
5: Google “why do roosters crow?”
The reason for crowing at dawn is the same as most birds in the dawn chorus. It is quietest then, and their voices travel further in the still cold air.
Where I am, the rooster is NOT the first call made, as their main call out of the day starts around 90mins before daybreak, but they never interrupt the owl looking for his mate just before then. Once the roosters have had their say the wood pigeons are usually next to say good morning, and the rest of the birds soon join them.
Insomniacs notice these things.
Loved the bloopers!
Love the bloopers reel.