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A bull A Charolais bull. A bull is an intact (i.e., not castrated) adult male of the species Bos taurus ().More muscular and aggressive than the females of the same species (i.e. cows proper), bulls have long been an important symbol in many religions, including for sacrifices.
In all cattle species, a female twin of a bull usually becomes infertile due to intrauterine exposure to high testosterone levels. She is functionally a partial intersex, and is commonly called a freemartin. A wild, young, unmarked bull is known as a micky in Australia. [7] An unbranded bovine of either sex is called a maverick in the US and ...
[8] [9] Cattle breeds vary widely in size; the tallest and heaviest is the Chianina, where a mature bull may be up to 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) at the shoulder, and may reach 1,280 kg (2,820 lb) in weight. [10] The natural life of domestic cattle is some 25–30 years. Beef cattle go to slaughter at around 18 months, and dairy cows at about five years.
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Papal bull of Pope Urban VIII, 1637, sealed with a lead bulla The apostolic constitution Magni aestimamus issued as a papal bull by Pope Benedict XVI in 2011 which instituted the Military Ordinariate of Bosnia and Herzegovina. A papal bull is a type of public decree, letters patent, or charter issued by a pope of the Catholic Church.
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The brazen bull, also known as the bronze bull, Sicilian bull, Bellowing bull or bull of Phalaris, was a torture and execution device designed in ancient Greece. [1] According to Diodorus Siculus , recounting the story in Bibliotheca historica , Perilaus (Περίλαος) (or Perillus (Πέριλλος)) of Athens invented and proposed it to ...
“Perhaps Bull Durham has resonated all these years because it is about loving something more than it loves you back,” Shelton writes. “It’s about reckoning. It’s about loss. It’s about ...