Talk:Combat de Reines

A fact from Combat de Reines appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 July 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that cow fighting, unlike bull fighting, is a sport that does not have human participants but is fought between cows, and that it often does not include any physical contact?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/July.

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Japan[edit]

There is a very similar tradition of bullfighting in Japan. I remember it being mentionned in Will Ferguson's Hitching Rides with Buddha,which i am currently reading. A quick googlesearch digs up this, amongst others. Circeus 23:29, 8 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

So it would appear that Japanese bullfighting is between two bulls and is known as "Togyu" (though my Japanese is non-existant). It's almost half way between cow fighting and bullfighting - it's certainly more aggressive than the former! Certainly deserving of an article, and one may exist at JAwiki. violet/riga (t) 09:54, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

refusal?[edit]

Saying that cows "refuse" to do something is sort of anthropomorphic, isn't it?

No, cows have a free will, so they can easily refuse to do something. Refusal is not just a human characteristic. - Mgm|^(talk) 09:31, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Valais[edit]

It's more a canton-valais than a swiss tradition it doesn't exist in the rest of switzerland. --217.162.144.131

Not totally true, there are some fightings (ok, by far less than in VS) in VD. 85.2.111.125 (talk) 22:54, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cows?[edit]

At the risk of appearing a complete fool. The picture that accompanies this article seems to be of bulls, not cows. At least I don't think there's any species of bovine wherein the female has horns. I could be wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MarkieAA (talk • contribs) 23:06, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

They are cows. It's even linked in the article. Herens_(cattle) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.62.134.163 (talk • contribs) 21:27, 4 September 2010

Yes, they're cows, though they do look remarkably like bulls at first sight: they are very muscular indeed, they have pendulous flaps underneath where a bull would have its penis, and the udder of the left-hand one is an unusual shape and looks surprisingly like a scrotum (the teats give her away though...).

However, it is certainly not true that female bovines don't have horns. In domestic cattle, some breeds have horns and some are naturally polled but there is no difference between males and females in this respect. (Both horned males and females may also be dehorned.) Sheep are different: in some breeds only the males do have horns, and this happens in many antelope species too; for some reason many people extend this idea to cattle and share the belief about only cows not having horns. Richard New Forest (talk) 09:36, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]