Bullfighting

Overview
Spanish-style bullfighting is an arena event were a group of people get in to the ring, annoy the bull with a swishing cloth and then attack it, in mos cases fatally wounding it. Most who live are executed in the ring.

Portuguese-style bullfighting is similar, but less bloody. Portuguese bulls die less often and are executed off-stage. Portugal is also more willing to let surviving bulls retire as seed-stock.

It dose not include Navarre-style bull leaping, the Pamplona bull run, Rodeos, Provenceal-style bull fighting or strange festivals like the native Peruvian one were fire crackers are tied to a bull's horns in a particular seasonal local festival.

Also see

 * 1) Cockfighting
 * 2) Dogfighting