One year ago: the last bullfight

The last bull to be killed during the last bullfight is removed from the arena at La Monumental bullring in central Barcelona, on September 25, 2011. Fans and opponents of bullfighting crowded into Barcelona on Sunday for the last "corrida" to be held in the city's La Monumental arena following a ban on the traditional Spanish spectacle in Catalonia.

Photo: Reuters/Gustau Nacarino

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Bull tongue

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Chicago has a new mayor

(He's on the left) Photo: Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune / February 24, 2011

Internet Hoaxes: Bulls

Claim: Tourist's last photo is a close-up of an enormous charging bull. Status: False. Photo is genuine, but was taken by a professional photographer with a remote control camera, at the 2002 San Fermin Festival in Pamploma, Spain. Source: Snopes See the Pet Blog's other entries on animal related internet hoaxes.

Save this bull

This two-week-old calf, named "Ha-chan" after the word "heart," was born at a dairy farm 40 kilometres from Tokyo. The farmer noticed the clear, love-heart-shaped pattern on the forehead the morning after he was born. He's now a local celebrity but if no-one can give him a home he will have to be sold for meat. An appeal has been made in Japan to save the baby "Valentine" bull born with a heart-shaped pattern on his forehead from the butcher's shop. Source

Photography by Leigh Wiener

In November 1961, photographer Leigh Wiener shot a bullfight in Tijuana, Mexico, that starkly depicts the brutality of the sport, against the backdrop of amused and horrified spectators that include women in their spring hats, children in their matador costumes. Tijuana Sunday was published as a photo book in 1989.

A lot of bull

Chilli is a black and white Friesian bullock who weighs well over a ton and at the same height as a small elephant, casts a shadow over his cattle companions who are about 5 ft. Chilli is 6 feet tall, so his owners have contacted the Guinness Book of Records who are currently assessing his credentials and comparing them to other big bovines. The heifer, who is almost as high as he is long, lives at the Ferne Animal Sanctuary in Chard, Somerset, after he was left on their doorstep aged just six-days-old. Source: Daily Mail via Neatorama

It's all bull

* When someone stole Bully, the 12-foot-tall landmark bull, that inspired Bill Hollingsworth’s “No Bull” campaign slogan, the would-be Hamilton County sheriff stood up and took action. Hollingsworth spent the following afternoon with a hired pilot, flying over the fields of Hamilton County, trying to spot the stolen steer. He also alerted the local radio station and TV stations, and spread the word through the small town. A $500 reward is offered for information leading to Bully’s return … and that’s no bull. * A bull in Bangladesh tried to skip a dinner at which he would be the main course by escaping from a butcher shop. The bull demolished a series of vegetable and fruit shops then started attacking people. Police, butchers and spectators joined in a hot chase and captured the berserk animal as it became exhausted rushing up and down the market. The bull did not have many moments to live after its capture because it soon went under the knife to supply meat for a feast. * A bull in Serbia will have to serve a two-year prison term along with his owner because there’s no-one to look after the animal while his owner does his time for attempted murder. Micko the bull will be kept in the jail’s backyard while his owner serves his sentence. The city has agreed to pay the bull’s food and all other expenses until his owner is released.

Albert the Bull

Albert, the World's Largest Bull, has been guarding the peaceful streets of Audubon since 1964. He is 30 feet tall and 33 feet long, and has a 15-foot span between horns. He also has baby blue eyes and giant concrete gonads. He weighs 45 tons, and most of it is solid concrete. The steelwork that forms his mighty frame was salvaged from abandoned Iowa windmills. Source: Roadside America

A lot of bull!

The Field Marshal, a six-year-old Charolais bull, is now 6ft 3in and weighs 3,000lb. He will not be fully grown until he is eight and is expected to pile on another 650lb in the next year. That will take him past the current British record-holder, his former stablemate The Colonel, who stood 6ft 5in tall and weighed 3,500lb. He died in 2005.

The case of the uninvited visitor

Hillarious story ... Anyone missing a bull? (via)

Bull Wanders Into Elderly Woman's Garage

An elderly upstate New York woman had to put up with a lot of bull -- literally. Eighty-one-year-old Mabel Washburn says she was pulling into her driveway Wednesday when she spotted something big inside her garage. It turned out to be a bull. She drove to a nearby relative's home and called police. When she returned home a few minutes later, the bull was still there. Washburn said the animal rammed its horns into her car a couple of times. She blew her horn at it but says the bull then chased her car as she drove away.