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  Cattle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A young male is called a bull calf; a young female before she has calved the second time is called a heifer (pronounced "heffer").
Strictly speaking, the singular noun for the domestic bovine is ox: a bull is a male ox and a cow is a female ox.
Bulls in particular are seen as a symbolic emblem of selfless duty and religion.
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 bull elephant managing in zoo and circus
With the elephant bull, there is still the additional phenomenon of the musth apart from its size and strength.
Elephant bulls, which are tied up in the stable for hygiene, are a thing of the past.
Since every zoo with a breeding bull wants to and has to breed, statistically every second elephant birth is a bull calf.
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 Top 20 Encyclopedia
In historical times, their range was restricted to Europe, and the last animals were killed by poachers in Masovia, Poland, in 1627, although some breeders have attempted to recreate the original gene pool of the aurochs by careful crossing of commercial breeds, creating the Heck cattle breed.
The main source of this rumour is the fact that Matadors traditionally use red-coloured capes to provoke bulls into attacking.
Other sports like Bull riding are seen as part of a Rodeo, especially in North America.
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 The Ultimate Animal worship Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
However, once a year they sacrifice a bull calf, which is eaten in the forest by the adult males.
Conspicuous among Egyptian animal cults was that of the bull, Apis.
The finder was rewarded, and the bull underwent four months' education at Nilopolis.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: American Indians
A somewhat similar game played with a netted wheel and a straight stick was found upon the plains, the object being to dart the stick through the certain netted holes in the wheel, known as the buffalo, bull, calf, etc. Foot races were very popular with certain tribes, as the Pueblo, Apache.
Bull (New York, 1901); Indianische sagen von der nordpacifischen Küste (Berlin, 1895); Idem, Reports on the Northwestern Tribes of Canada in N. Br.
London, 1843); Mooney, The Souian Tribes of the East, Bull.
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