What animal do both Cocky and cockfights have in common?
rooster
Cocky (mascot)
Cocky is the costumed mascot of the University of South Carolina athletics teams.
 He represents a cartoon version of a gamecock (a fighting rooster).
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.
Human–animal hybrid
The term human–animal hybrid or animal–human hybrid refers to an entity that incorporates elements from both humans and non-human animals.
 For thousands of years, these hybrids have been one of the most common themes in storytelling about animals throughout the world.
 The lack of a strong divide between humanity and animal nature in multiple traditional and ancient cultures has provided the underlying historical context for the popularity of tales where humans and animals have mingling relationships, such as in which one turns into the other or in which some mixed being goes through a journey.
 Interspecies friendships within the animal kingdom, as well as between humans and their pets, additionally provides an underlying root for the popularity of such beings. Paraveterinary workers in Japan
Veterinary support personnel in Japan do not currently hold any official state recognition and are known under a variety of equivalent names.
 Credentialing is carried out by various private organizations.
 These organizations are the Japan Animal Health Technicians Association (JAHTA), the Japanese Animal Hospital Association (JAHA), the Japan Small Animal Veterinary Association (JSAVA), the All Japan Veterinary Co-operative (JVC), and the Japanese Society of Animal Nursing.
 The Japanese Veterinary Nurses & Technicians Association (JVNTA), a non-certifying body which closed its doors in 2007, was one of the original member organizations of the IVNTA.
 In 2009 the Japanese Veterinary Nursing Association (JVNA) was organized as an effort to unify and standardize the profession in Japan and to seek state recognition.
 The JVNA, which has the support of the Japanese Veterinary Medical Association (JVMA—the national organization for veterinarians), may serve only as a temporary vehicle towards a single permanent national certifying body.
 All of the organizations have been collaborating since 2010 as the Council for Veterinary Nursing Examination and have reached an agreement to share a common examination in February 2012.
 In the meantime, a new organization, supported by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries; the JVMA; and the JVNA has been tasked with developing a nationally sanctioned unified exam, the first of which was scheduled to be given in February 2013.
 Education lacks uniformity but in most cases consists of two- to three-year programs.
 A council of universities for animal nursing was also established and tasked with building a core curriculum for veterinary nursing.
 The council is made up of: Yamazaki Gakuen University, Nippon Veterinary and Life Science University, Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts, Teikyo University of Science, and Rakuno Gakuen University. Animal tarot
Animal tarots (German: "Tiertarock") are a subgenre of tarot decks.
 The earliest examples are from 18th-century Germany, probably designed by A.B. Göbl of Munich.
 A theme of animals, real and/or fantastic, replaces the traditional trump scenes of the Tarot of Besançon, a derivative of the Tarot of Marseilles.
 They are the first known types of French-suited tarot patterns.
 Patterns with full-figured courts, prominent during the 18th–20th centuries, included the Bavarian and the Belgium styles.
 Later designs are the Upper Austria Animal Tarot and Adler Cego cards.
 Animal tarots were most commonly found in northern Europe, from Belgium to Russia, until the decline of tarot card games during the mid-19th century.
 In Austria-Hungary, they were replaced by the Industrie und Glück decks.
 The Adler Cego used in Baden is the only animal tarot pattern still in common use. Planchonia careya
Planchonia careya is a tree species in the family Lecythidaceae.
 Common names include cocky apple, cockatoo apple and billygoat plum.
 It produces an edible fruit which tastes like quince.
 Indigenous Australians use the bark and leaves in medications.
 The bark and roots were also used as a fish poison.
 It should not be confused with "Terminalia ferdinandiana", with which it shares some common names. Scienter
The scienter action is a category within [tort] law in some[common law] jurisdictions which deals with the damage done by an animal directly to a human.
 It had a long history in English law, although it was abolished by the [Animals Act 1971].
 An action in those common law jurisdictions where it has not been extinguished by statute, is in addition to the torts of negligence and nuisance, or more bespoke torts like cattle trespass.
 Where an animal is known to behave in a certain way, and that is expressed on a person causing injury, an action can be taken in this tort.
 This tort is not available in New South Wales, The Australian Capital Territory, South Australia or New Zealand.
 In these jurisdictions the actions involving animals need to be in nuisance or negligence.
 To be successful the plaintiff needs to take action against the person in control of the animal, and it is strict liability, requiring no more than proof of injury, that the animal had a problematic trait, and the person in control knew about the trait in the animal.
 Being strict liability, there is no need to argue fault in the form of wilful intent or negligence on the part of the animal or its controller.
 The only defence is if it can be proved the plaintiff voluntarily assumed the risk of injury by their actions, or if the plaintiff was the cause of the injury.
 It is common to distinguish between harmless animals and wild animals.
 No scienter is needed for wild animals.
 Animals are classed as wild or harmless on the basis of species or kind, not on the basis of being a tame individual.
 An elephant is considered wild irrespective of its use.
 The scienter action is referred to in Rylands v. Fletcher in that one who keeps a wild thing “must keep it at his peril” to make reference to part of Justice Colin Blackburn’s comment. List of English animal nouns
The following is a list of English animal nouns, (the common names of kinds of animals).
 This list includes the common names used for the animal in general; names for the male animal and the female animal where such names exist; the name used for the young or juveniles of the animal; the common name given for the sound the animal makes, if any; the group noun where applicable; and the name of both the natural shelter and (if applicable) an artificial shelter for the animals. Cynophobia
Cynophobia (from the Greek: κύων "kýōn" "dog" and φόβος "phóbos" "fear") is the fear of dogs. Cynophobia is classified as a specific phobia, under the subtype "animal phobias".
 According to Dr. Timothy O. Rentz of the Laboratory for the Study of Anxiety Disorders at the University of Texas, animal phobias are among the most common of the specific phobias and 36% of patients who seek treatment report being afraid of dogs or cats.
 Although snakes and spiders are more common animal phobias, cynophobia is especially debilitating because of the high prevalence of dogs (for example, there are an estimated 25 million stray dogs in India, and an estimated 62 million pet dogs in the United States) and the general ignorance of dog owners to the phobia.
 The "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" ("DSM-IV-TR") reports that only 12% to 30% of those suffering from a specific phobia will seek treatment. Talitrus saltator
Talitrus saltator, a species of sand hopper, is a common amphipod crustacean of sandy coasts around Europe.
 The animal's typical "hopping" movement gives the animal its common name, and is produced by a flexion of the abdomen.
 In order to do this, it must stand on its legs (amphipods usually rest on their sides) and suddenly extend its abdomen out from under its body.
 It can thus leap several inches into the air, although without any control over its direction.
 A great deal of scientific research has been carried out on the animal, to determine the environmental cues which it uses to control its behaviour.