Bull's Tail Gets Tangled in Tree, Owner Must Free It
A 68-year-old farmer in Chiang Mai had to rescue his young fighting bull after its tail became tangled around a tree while the animal was swatting at insects in his orchard.
On August 20, a retired teacher named Jaral Phueak Kham, aged 68, who now lives in Huai Muang village in Chom Thong district, Chiang Mai, shared his unusual experience. After retiring from teaching, he invested in longan farming and raising fighting bulls because he enjoyed the sport. While checking on his 10-month-old male bull named Jao Kaed at the orchard, he discovered the animal standing motionless with its tail wrapped tightly around a Cratoxylum tree. The owner was extremely surprised, having never seen such a thing in his 68 years—he had previously only heard of bulls wrapping their horns, not their tails. He wondered whether the bull was extremely clever or extremely foolish, and had to help free its tail from the tree.
Jao Kaed, also called Jao Khare, is an underdeveloped bull because its mother, Luang Pisanu, a fighting bull breed purchased from Nakhon Si Thammarat province for 20,000 baht, died when the calf was only three months old before it could be fully weaned. The young bull has relatively intelligent behavior, but its tail became tangled when it swatted at insects and accidentally wrapped around the tree, making it impossible to pull free.
The incident likely occurred when insects began bothering the calf, causing it to swish its tail to drive them away. By chance, the tail wrapped around the Cratoxylum tree, and the bull could not manage to unwrap it on its own.
