cockerel

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"We recently accepted a group of dumped cockerels, for which we had no history on these abandoned animals," a spokesperson said.

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Yet as much as he loved playing football, he was as content catching grasshoppers or training cockerels for fighting.

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In Cambridge itself, a bronze cockerel looted in a British raid was removed from display at Jesus College, in 2016, and returned to Nigeria last month.

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A statue of a cockerel is one priceless artefact soon to be welcomed home, after Jesus College handed it over to a delegation from Nigeria at a ceremony at Cambridge University on Wednesday.

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The college's Legacy of Slavery Working Party concluded in 2019 that the cockerel "belongs with the current Oba at the Court of Benin".

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