Roosters crow in order of seniority, the top cock
announcing daybreak while juniors patiently wait their turn, said a study
Thursday which revealed a long-guarded secret of chickendom. We are all
familiar with that first pre-dawn "cock-a-doodle-doo", quickly
followed by others within hearing distance. But how do cockerels decide who
goes first?They pull rank, according to a set of experiments with captive birds
reported in the journal Scientific
Reports (July 23). "The top-ranking rooster always started to crow
first, followed by its subordinates, in descending order of social rank,"
wrote the Japanese authors of the study. July 23
The journal Scientific Reports is published from
London. Shown here is the chart for the First Quarter Moon of July 24 at
London. The Sun is conjunct the Ascendant and forms a Grand Trine with the MC
and Saturn. It is also conjunct Mercury and the asteroid Diana which rules
animals. Saturn [-17°49'] that rules seniority is parallel in declination to the star Mirzam [-17°57'].
Beta (β),
Mirzam, is a white 2nd magnitude star in Canis Major on the front left paw of
the Greater Dog. Murzim, generally but less correctly Mirzam, and occasionally
Mirza, is from Al Murzim, the Announcer. This star Mirzam or beta
(β) Canis Major, was often combined by the Arabs with the star beta (β) Canis
Minor (Gomeisa), and these two beta stars together were titled "The Announcers", heralding
the coming of Sirius, the biggest star in the sky, because they rose before
Sirius in the night sky.
In other words First
Quarter Moon chart highlights an animal who is an Announcer….and also tells us that seniority counts!
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