Why do cows attack when they see red?

When the cow sees something red, it will immediately rush up angrily-this concept comes from the bullring, which has already been deeply rooted in people's hearts and even become one of the favorite materials of cartoons. But in fact, although the matador used red cloth to attract the bull's attention, the cloak his assistants used to tease the bull was pink and yellow. Bullfighting is red and green color blind. They are not angered by color, but by loneliness and helplessness. This is their character. Red cloth attracts bullfighting by hand movements, and red is only used to render the atmosphere, that is, to stimulate the audience.

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Stratton) studied this problem. He found 40 cows, and then experimented with four colors of flags: white, black, red and green. Stratton found that it was not the color of the flag that attracted the bull's attention, but the brightness and waving degree of the flag. This is probably why the matador needs to wear shiny clothes and wave his red cloth and cloak with great fanfare.

Cattle are truly color blind and only see the black and white world. The matador will take out a piece of red cloth in the bullring, because red represents enthusiasm and can drive the audience's mood. The reason why the cow will contradict the red cloth is because the matador keeps shaking the red cloth. Cows get angry when they see the cloth that keeps shaking. In fact, no matter what color the cloth is, the cow will run and hit it. So, don't be surprised if one day you hit an express train in a bullfight.

How crazy is Spain about bullfighting? There are only 12 months in a year, and the bullfighting season in Spain lasts for almost 7 months from the San Jose Festival in March of 19 to the Spanish National Day in March of 12 10. The bullring is a circular open-air building, and its shape inherits the Colosseum in ancient Rome, because the tradition of bullfighting in Spain originated from the performance of fighting animals in ancient Rome, and there were bulls in the war between man and beast at that time.

Bullfighting was originally a performance on horseback. It was not until a bullfight performance in Ronda in the18th century that the matador Francisco Romero first asked for permission to fight on foot. On the court, he skillfully avoided the contradiction of the bull with elegant and agile movements many times, and finally stabbed the bull with his sword. This innovation makes the audience boil and rewrites the history of bullfighting from riding to walking.

At present, the Las Vendas bullring in Madrid, Spain is the largest bullring in Spain, which can accommodate 32,000 spectators. Especially in May, the stands are often packed, which represents the highest standard bullfighting performance in Spain, and all matadors can be proud to fight here.

In each bullfighting performance, three matadors and six bulls take turns to appear, and the order of appearance is determined by drawing lots. Each matador is responsible for fighting and killing two bulls. Each matador has his own team of assistants, including three darters, two lancers on horseback and 1 short swordsmen. The whole performance kicked off with the entrance of the matador, and two knights led three bullfighting teams to enter. They bowed to the chairman's seat in the stands and asked for the key to the bullpen. Subsequently, the band played "The Matador March" and paraded around the venue. As the chairman gave the order, the horn sounded, the first bull flew out and the bullfighting officially began.

Every bull has to perform four parts: teasing, piercing the spear, throwing and fighting. The following are all the weapons of Spanish bullfighting: cross spear, cross sword, short dagger, long sword and flower dart.

The bull used in the Spanish bullfighting field is a cross between Iberian bison brought by Moors and African bison. They are naturally grumpy and irritable, and they also develop shuttlecock meat. Adult bulls can weigh up to 500 ~ 700 kg. Spain stipulates that only bulls over four years old and weighing more than 460 kilograms can enter the bullring as first-class cows. In order to breed a fiery bull, breeding will start with the parents of young bulls. Those cows with weak attack will not only have no chance to enter the bullring or give birth to offspring, but will also be sent to the slaughterhouse as beef cattle.