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  2. Combat de Reines - Wikipedia

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    Combat de Reines or Swiss Cow fighting (French: Combat de Reines; Romansh: Combat da reginas) is a traditional event held mostly in the Swiss canton of Valais, in which a cow fights another cow (unlike bullfighting, in which humans fight bulls, often to the death).

  3. Bull wrestling - Wikipedia

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    Bulls are selected by age, horn length and size. They are enticed to fight usually after new year's or summer events. They are usually non-lethal events and bulls that carry the opposing bulls will get the most points if it is a draw. The loser is usually the bull that flees first even if winning.

  4. Tōgyū - Wikipedia

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    Two bulls beginning a match in Ishikawa, Okinawa Arena on Okinawa Island. Tōgyū (闘牛), also known as ushi-zumo or bull sumo, is bull wrestling as it is called in Japan. It used to be a traditional annual or seasonal sport by the proud owners of the farming bulls, but it is now held as a spectator sport in various places, such as the prefectures of Iwate, Kagoshima (Amami Islands), Niigata ...

  5. Bovine sports - Wikipedia

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    Bovine bingo is usually a fundraising event where a bovine is placed in a clean pen taped off with labeled squares. People bet on which square the animal will defecate in, and the winner(s) who select the correct square(s) collect the prize money or other awards.

  6. Bullfighting - Wikipedia

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    Bull-leaping: Fresco from Knossos, Crete. Bullfighting traces its roots to prehistoric bull worship and sacrifice in Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean region. The first recorded bullfight may be the Epic of Gilgamesh, which describes a scene in which Gilgamesh and Enkidu fought and killed the Bull of Heaven ("The Bull seemed indestructible, for hours they fought, till Gilgamesh dancing in ...

  7. Bullfight advocates working with young people to attract new ...

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    The corral gate swings open and an energetic calf charges in, only to be wrestled stuggling to the ground and immobilized by having its legs tied. It happened in one of the sessions of a workshop ...

  8. Spanish-style bullfighting - Wikipedia

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    The most common bull used is the Spanish Fighting Bull (Toro Bravo), a type of cattle native to the Iberian Peninsula. This style of bullfighting is seen to be both a sport and performance art. The red colour of the cape is a matter of tradition – bulls are color blind. They attack moving objects; the brightly-colored cape is used to mask ...

  9. Guanniu - Wikipedia

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    Local men would test their strength against bulls weighing as much as 400 kg (880 lb). Contestants must force a bull on the ground with their bare hands within three minutes. [ 7 ] Unlike Spanish-style bullfighting , which ends with the killing of the bull, guanniu traditionally ends when the bull is thrown down.