Roosters give up on foreplay

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Regina — Dinner and dancing are hallmarks of any successful courtship.

The same holds true of chickens. A good rooster knows what a fickle hen wants — some pecking at the ground, a little singing, some prancing about.

Over the last decade, however, researchers have noticed that, in certain lines of roosters, courtship is becoming a lost art.

It seems the quest for a perfect breast has turned some roosters into sexually aggressive sociopaths.

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