Call it what you like, but there is no other description I can think of that would cover hiding in a corner because of being humiliated, and then needing help to recover his "mojo." I don't exactly anthromorphise, but I certainly know that animals have emotions.
That really wasn't my pointI hate to disappoint you, but roo is, indeed, in the dictionary.
You *are* the one that said it wasn't in the dictionary, aren't you?That really wasn't my point
No, I did not.You *are* the one that said it wasn't in the dictionary, aren't you?
Roo would not be accepted in the scrabble rules I play by as it's a truncated word....thus it's 'slang'.
I call it a young cockerel who got schooled by an older bird and is acting accordingly - stay out of the way, don't do anything to get noticed, and you don't get the snot beat out of you by the big guy or the cranky old lady. I'd call it self preservation more than being embarrassed.
I wasn't talking about something that took a few days to get over. The fellow I had took weeks to get over. He literally refused to eat and drink on his own for a week. If that isn't depression due to *something*, I don't know what is. And the only thing that happened to him was the shocking embarrassment of being humiliated in front of the entire flock and cornered until he simply gave up, turned his head into the corner, and sat down to die... which he would have had I not intervened.I don't know if roosters get embarrassed or if it's the abrupt change in their plans that messes them up. Last young fella here was just being a terror until his mom cornered him in the compost fence and did unspeakable things to him lol! Took that cockrel a couple of days to really stop moping, took me a little longer to stop laughing.
He's hiding in a corner to avoid getting his butt whooped any further. As bobbi-j posted, it's an act of self preservation.
a) mention that "roo" was accepted by Scrabble
