Roost may refer to:
Animal resting
*
Human
Humans (''Homo sapiens'') are the most abundant and widespread species of primate, characterized by bipedalism and exceptional cognitive skills due to a large and complex brain. This has enabled the development of advanced tools, culture, ...
to rest or sleep.
*
Roosting
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweig ...
, resting behavior of birds
*
Communal roosting
Communal roosting is an animal behavior where a group of individuals, typically of the same species, congregate in an area for a few hours based on an external signal and will return to the same site with the reappearance of the signal. Environment ...
, a behavior of some birds and other animals
*
Monarch butterfly roosts
Monarch butterfly migration is the phenomenon, mainly across North America, where the subspecies '' Danaus plexippus plexippus'' migrates each summer and autumn to and from overwintering sites on the West Coast of California or mountainous sites i ...
, communal resting sites in monarch butterfly migration
*
Bat roost
Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera.''cheir'', "hand" and πτερόν''pteron'', "wing". With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats are more agile in flight than most bir ...
, a list of places where bats roost
Other uses
*
Roost Records
Roost Records (also known as Royal Roost Records) was a jazz record label established in 1949 by music producer Teddy Reig in New York City. The label was named after a club in New York City. Saxophonist Stan Getz, early in his career, recorded f ...
, an American jazz record label
* Roost Books, an imprint of
Shambhala Publications
Shambhala Publications is an independent publishing company based in Boulder, Colorado. According to the company, it specializes in "books that present creative and conscious ways of transforming the individual, the society, and the planet". Ma ...
* Roost Shared Storage, an American self-storage company acquired by the Australian company
Spacer
* ''
The Roost
''The Roost'' is a 2005 American horror film written and directed by Ti West.
Plot
On television show Frightmare Theatre, the Horror Host welcomes viewers and introduces them to the film they are about to see, ''The Roost''.
Four friends – T ...
'', a 2005 American horror film
*
The Roost (podcast network)
Rooster Teeth Productions, LLC is an American digital media company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2003 by Burnie Burns, Matt Hullum, Geoff Ramsey, Jason Saldaña, Gus Sorola, and Joel Heyman, Rooster Teeth is a subsidiary of Warner ...
, a division of Rooster Teeth Productions
*
The Roost (Washington)
The Roost is a 6,705 ft summit in the Picket Range which is a sub-range of the North Cascades of Washington, United States. It is located within North Cascades National Park and Stephen Mather Wilderness, and it is situated one mile north ...
, a mountain in Washington state, US
See also
*
Jan Van der Roost
Jan Van der Roost (born Duffel, 1956) is a Belgian composer.
Van der Roost was educated at the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven (1974-1979), and followed further studies at the Royal Conservatory in Ghent and the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwer ...
(born 1956), Belgian composer
*
Roost-Warendin
Roost-Warendin () is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
Population
Twin towns
Roost-Warendin is twinned with:
* Haltern am See, Germany
Heraldry
See also
*Communes of the Nord department
The following is a list of t ...
, France
*
Roest Roest is a Dutch language, Dutch toponymic surname. ''Roest'' is an archaic term for a reed bed, indicating an ancestor living in or nearby one. , a surname
{{disambiguation, surname