Talk:Cockatrice/@comment-26115871-20151009181130

Now that I think about it, it's entirely possible for you to be entranced by a baby/young cockatrice's pheromones, chase it back to the nest, and become a statue ripe for the picking all because you got a little too close to the kid, even if it wasn't your fault.

They probably live rather crappy lives as babies, getting chased any time a man gets a whiff of their pheromones. Small wonder that their first instinct as an adult upon seeing a male is to either bolt if unmarried or turn them to stone if married.