What animal do both Cocky and cockfights have in common?
Cockfight A cockfight is a blood sport between two cocks, or gamecocks, held in a ring called a cockpit. The history of raising fowl for fighting goes back 6,000 years. The first documented use of the "word" gamecock, denoting use of the cock as to a "game", a sport, pastime or entertainment, was recorded in 1634, after the term "cock of the game" used by George Wilson, in the earliest known book on the sport of cockfighting in "The Commendation of Cocks and Cock Fighting" in 1607. But it was during Magellan's voyage of discovery of the Philippines in 1521 when modern cockfighting was first witnessed and documented by Antonio Pigafetta, Magellan's chronicler, in the kingdom of Taytay.
Templetonia retusa Templetonia retusa, known as cockies tongues or cocky's tongues, is a shrub in the family Fabaceae (Leguminosae) that grows in southern and south-western Australia. It grows up to 2 m high, with leaves 15 - long and 7 - wide. Its flowers are normally a rich red colour, and are 25 - long. The seed pods are 40 - long and around 10 mm wide. It is found in coastal woodland and heaths over limestone from Shark Bay, Western Australia, to near Kangaroo Island, as well as inland in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia.