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Other Facts about Bullfighting


 * There are six bulls in each bullfight.
 * Three matadors are involved in a bullfight.
 * Spanish bullfights couldn't take place without the toros bravos, which are a special breed of bulls that can only be found in Spain.
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 * Matadors get applause based on how close the bull horns are to them, how calm they are during the encounter, and their general grace. They also get applause if the bull misses the cape.
 * It does not actually matter what color the cape is because bulls are color-blind and will instinctively charge at any target.
 * The cloth presents a big moving target and the bull therefore charges at it.
 * These fighting bulls do not have to be trained to charge.
 * Fighting bulls are allowed to live one year longer than the bulls headed to the slaughterhouse.
 * The design for the bullring probably came from the Celtic-Iberian temples.
 * The first real Spanish bullfight took place in Vera Logrono, 1133 to honor the coronation of King Alfonzo the eighteenth.
 * King Philip found bullfighting disgusting so after a while the wealthy people stopped going to bullfights
 * it is one of the best known and polemical spanish customs
 * the plazas or bullrings are probobly not based on the amphitheaters, but the celt-iberian tempals who's religous cerimonies were held in