cockerel
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The sculpture of a cockerel was one of hundreds of Benin Bronzes that were pillaged from the once mighty Kingdom of Benin, located in what is now Nigeria.
From Reuters ● Oct. 27, 2021
The college's Legacy of Slavery Working Party concluded in 2019 that the cockerel "belongs with the current Oba at the Court of Benin".
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2021
After being looted, the cockerel was given to Jesus College in 1905 by the father of a student.
From Reuters ● Oct. 27, 2021
Jesus College's bronze cockerel, donated by a parent of a student, took pride of place in the college dining hall.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2021
The cockerel tree you can see from my bedroom wasn't running left to right now, it was running right to left.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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Harrison, the youngest of four children, previously lived with his parents Harold and Louise - and the family's pet cockerels - in a small house in Arnold Grove, Wavertree.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2021
Critics say that backyard flock owners’ demand for day-old pullets, or female chicks, leads to more cockerels, or male chicks, being culled or slipping through to eventually wind up in need of homes or dumped.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 19, 2018
Terriers, geese and perturbed-looking cockerels roamed in between the legs of cantankerous horses.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 8, 2018
In the late 1960s, the International Dairy Federation paid Yudkin to conduct sugar studies in pigs, rats, cockerels, and humans.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2018
Something like half the chicks hatched would probably be cockerels and the other half pullets.
From The Black Fawn by James Arthur Kjelgaard