A French cockerel called Maurice, whose owner was taken to court over his early-morning crowing, has died aged six.
Maurice gained international support and became a symbol of the French countryside after finding himself at the centre of a legal dispute over noise pollution.
Last year, a court ruled in the roosters's favour, allowing him to live out the rest of his life at home on the island of Oléron.
While Maurice reportedly died in May, his owner Corinne Fessaau only just revealed the news.
She was quoted by France Blue on Thursday morning, saying: "I said to myself that with lockdown, people already had enough to worry about."
"We've bought a new cockerel and we've called him Maurice too - he sings just as well. But he will never be our Maurice."
The copper-feathered cockerel became the defendant in the July court battle where he was accused of causing too much noise by a retired couple who have a holiday home on Oléron.
Ms Fesseau told CNN at the time that she had never known any of her roosters' crows to bother anyone in the 35 years she lived on the island.
But in September, the judge ruled in favour of Maurice's owner and ordered the plaintiffs to pay €1,000 (£900; $1,100) in damages.
The trial ignited a debate in France with hundreds of thousands of people signing her online petition to save Maurice.
One of the reasons Jean-Louis Biron and Joelle Andrieux built their holiday property 15 years ago in the region was because of its tranquillity, they said.
But problems with Maurice, and what they described as his excessively loud crowing, began in 2017.
They complained to Ms Fesseau, who has lived on Oléron for 35 years, provoking a disagreement which became the headline-making dispute.
