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Why do bulls chase people wearing red?

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Bulls and cows are actually red green colour-blind. A bull may charge if he thinks you are in his territory (walking across his field). Certain cattle breeds are more dangerous than other breeds. A cow may charge if you are walking a dog in the same field as she and her calf. Young cows may charge towards you from the other side of a field, more out of curiosity than anger, but can be very intimidating to people not used to cattle. But in any case, colour is not a factor.

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They don't. They do not see colors. In a bull fight, the bull responds to the motion of the cape, which is red by tradition.

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Are bulls attracted to red capes?

Bulls and cows are actually red green colour-blind, so are not afraid of the colour red. It is the annoying waving of the cape that causes the bull to charge in a bull-fight arena.


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Why does the color red make bulls angry?

It is a common misconception that the color red angers bulls. Like most mammals, cattle are red-green color blind. The bull has been provoked by various other people by various means before the matador enters. It is also the movement of the matador's cape in bullfighting, and not the color, which provokes the bull's reaction.


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Why does a bull charge when it sees red?

They don't. They only charge at the rapid movement of the cape, not the colour. Cattle (which includes and also refers to bulls) and other grazing animals only have blue and yellow receptors in their eyes, no red receptors, thus a bull (which cannot nor do not see the red in the cape that the matador is waving at him) will be merely charging at the movement of the object or person, not the object or person that is of a red colour.Actually bulls aren't attracted to red they just chase the moving object because their color blind and they see it threatening.

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