In December 2018, Sergei, a 41-year-old Russian hunter, brought injured brown bear cubs back to the farm for rescue. One day, the brown bear suddenly went wild and attacked the hunter, eating his own savior, and two hounds, and eventually, the brown bear was killed by the police. In May 2020, there was also a black bear attack in our country, biting and killing three people.
In recent years, there have been incidents of tigers injuring people in safari parks, and wild boar injuries have often occurred. Many places have reported news of farmers' crops being destroyed by wild boars, and the number of wild boars in many places has been flooded.
Usually, these people's conflicts with animals mostly occur in wild animals, but chickens as poultry can take people's lives, which is really unheard of. Even the infamous goose, which is also a poultry, will have no fangs or claws, and it is difficult to grasp the ability to kill people, so how does the chicken do it?
If I tell you that it is "cockfighting" that hurts people, can you accept the fact that chickens can kill people?
In my childhood memories, I was chased by a chicken and ran a street. Only to see it with a red crown of feathers, striding with its head held high, flapping its wings and crying, I threw up my legs and ran. After returning home, my mind could not be calmed for a long time: "Is it just a chicken that walks home when I go home?" "So I carried the saw and found the tree, and I was about to create a weapon in my hand, looking for Si Chen to fight for another three hundred rounds."
Thinking of those days when I was dominated by chickens, I still have a lingering feeling about catching chickens with my bare hands. The chicken has never been a weak person in my heart, after all, it is an opponent that I have recognized many years ago.
And this memory, which should have been forgotten long ago, was because a piece of news came back to mind.
In southern India, in a once banned cockfighting match, a rooster pierced its owner's groin and shed a lot of blood. The rooster's owner, known in local media as 45-year-old Thanugulla Satish Goud (and then simply "poor Indian"), had already died of excessive blood loss by the time he arrived at Jagtil's hospital.
Police told local media that the rooster had been taken to a poultry farm for "protection" and would then be brought before the court as evidence of the cause of death.
Why is cockfighting so ferocious?
Cockfighting games originated in Asia. China is one of the oldest countries in the world to domesticate fighting cocks. In the Spring and Autumn Period, cockfighting has become more popular. The Book of Han and the Records of History record that Lu Jipingzi and His Neighbor Zhaobo offended Lu Zhaogong with cockfighting during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and even fought with each other.
According to Shandong's "Chronicle of Chengwu County", "The Cockfighting Platform is behind Wenting Mountain. In the third year of the reign of King Zhou (679 BC), the Duke of Qi Huan used the Song Dynasty to carry the Northern Apricot Society, and once embraced the princes to cut down the Song Dynasty, and Shan Bo would meet it, and when it was taken from the northern Song Dynasty, it was a cockfighting. "
Cockfighting chickens require a large body, a strong physique, a well-proportioned and compact structure, muscular, and strong and aggressive. The bones are well developed, dense and coarse. The head, neck, chest, and shin are almost in a straight line. The eyes are large and sharp, the beak is short and hard, and the tip is slightly curved and sharp. The neck is thick and flexible; the legs are strong and powerful, the shins are long; the distance is long and sharp, and the growth is upward. The claws are thick and hard and sharp. The feathers are thin, thick, short and close to the body, and the wing feathers flap vigorously.
Cockfighting was first seen in the "Twenty-five Years of Zuo Chuan Zhaogong": "Ji, The Chicken Fighting of The Ji Clan, the Ji Clan Jie His Chicken, the Ji Clan for the Gold", that is, Ji Pingzi sprinkled mustard on its chicken wings (or clouds painted its feathers with glue to make it resemble armor), and Zhao bo tied a metal knife around his chicken pitch.
The "poor Indian" rooster leg that died earlier was also equipped with a 7.5 cm long knife.
Poor Indians were among 16 people who organized cockfighting in the village of Losunur. The rooster was briefly held at the local police station before being sent to a poultry farm.
Just as the poor Indian was about to put the chicken in the field for battle, the chicken suddenly resisted. It didn't want to please humans, it didn't want to die in a meaningless battle to please humans, and in the memory of its ancestors, which time was it not for the little hen! Here, victory was meaningless, it jumped up, apparently to escape, and in a panic stabbed the blade at its feet into the belly of its master. Presumably it had wanted to do so for a long time.
Cockfighting is prohibited in India, but is still widespread in rural areas of Transgana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Odisha States, especially during the Hindu Sanklandi festival. And this is not the first time that cockfighting has taken people's lives in India. A spectator who watched cockfighting in 2020 also died after being cut in the abdomen by a sharp blade on a rooster's foot. The Indian lying gun is 55 years old and is named Saripari Venkaswara Rao. Unfortunately, although he was struggling very hard, he still could not defeat a chicken with only killing in his eyes.
Also in 2020, a Christian Boloch police officer in the Philippines was killed by a rooster during a raid to search for illegal cockfighting.
The officer grabbed the rooster's wings, but could not stop the rooster's constantly flapping feet, resulting in a blade on the foot cutting the femoral artery on the inside of Boloch's thigh. Bolok was immediately bleeding profusely, and although he was rushed to a nearby hospital, he was pronounced dead when he arrived at the hospital due to excessive blood loss.
Although cockfighting is prohibited in the United States, such accidents still occur. In 2011, a man in California who participated in an illegal cockffing was accidentally injured while participating in cockfighting gambling in Tulare County, central California.
Jose Luis Ochoa, 35, arrived at the hospital about two hours after his injuries, but his life was taken away by the chickens. That's right, he died in the hospital.
summary
In ancient times, cockfighting symbolized prosperity and stability. Because only when a certain economic level is reached, people will pursue entertainment in life, after all, when they are poor, they only want to live.
After visiting Linzi, the capital of the State of Qi, Su Qin praised: "Linzi is very rich and practical, and its people all play drums, play the piano, fight cocks and dogs, and walk on six bos." ”
During the Tang Dynasty, the people once issued an exclamation that "children do not need to read, and cockfighting is better than reading". Only because Tang Xuanzong loved a 13-year-old cockfighting prodigy. Up to now, in addition to being loved by some people, cockfighting is often regarded by many people as a bloody and cruel game.
We are human beings after all, the primates of all things, and whether we treat animals as we please depends on the mood.