In his quest for a way to contain the bubbles produced during fermentation, and thus to make the wines from his monastery's vineyards in Champagne sparkle, he tried replacing traditional wooden bottle stoppers with new-fangled cork ones.
The mating song of the male has been described as beginning with a resonant rattle, continuing with a pop-like a cork being pulled from a wine bottle, followed by the pouring of a liquid out of a narrow-necked bottle and ending with the sound of knife grinding.