A crowing rooster, a romantic figure in the familiar pages of literature, is an iconic image of all hamlets across the globe. With its attention grabbing cock-a-doodle-doo it occupies our mind as a harbinger of the dawn.

Roosters also have a legendary status amid many people, thanks to cockfight, a blood sport between two roosters. Featured here is a caged rooster unable to exhibit his ferocity, shot from a Pet Show held at Palakkad in Kerala.