Long fin fighting fish from Tropical fish book printed in 1954(Tropical fish, Lucile Quarry Mann, Sentinel Books Publishing, Inc. New York, 1954, p. 38
The long fin fighting fish draw by Thai artist (Loung Masayachitrakarn), and a picture of fighting fish from the western side. The similarity of these two pictures is, both are the veil tail and has big body trunk but the fins not so long as we can see the veil tail today. Both pictures can represent how the long fin look like when it is in the beginning of development.
From the picture and my memory when I was 5 years old (45 years ago), I am sure that the body size of fighting fish at that time was bigger but the fin was shorter when compared to the long fin of this day (2008), may be that time the fin is not development fully.
The unique form of co-working relationship is that, animal is moves along with the breeders/players. The process of expansion is simply following to the social infrastructure. Cannel and boat is the most convenience route for transportation in which the players moving from one place to another place. At that time the settlements of people are on the both sides of the cannel and river.
This picture show the people watching fighting fish in an earthenware pot in Thai word call
” Mor”. So fighting fish call “Plakat Mor” or fighting fish in earthenware pot. The two men touch theirs’ hand showing the challenged bets were accepted. One can notice also from the cloth they were dressing that they belonging to the peasant society. Most of the peasant class were uneducated they can not read and write. This is one of the most difficult tasks in writing fighting fish history. Thai proverb “land lord play fighting cock, slave play fighting fish” (ขุนนางเล่นไก่ ขี้ข้าเล่นปลา”), gave very clear picture of who play the fighter.
