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Taken with Fuji X-E1
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Bit gory, apologies if it's unsettling.
I've been living in SE Asia for just over 3 years, when travelling cock fighting is ubiquitous when you get of the beaten track. It's so ingrained in the Phillipine culture that I heard any politician suggesting controls would be committing political suicide.
But this is taken in Northern Bali, the Balinese revere animals, everywhere there are symbols suggesting there divinity and there are modern societies working to protect wildlife / feral animal throughout Bali.
This pic is taken after around a minute of the fight, after the initial tussle the birds are both exhausted, they are held up and the n put in a wicker cage with nowhere to run.
The bird that can't continue has a small offering placed against him for a while and the next fight takes place.
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