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Red cape

The matador’s red cape does not need to be red to provoke the bull. The bull is color blind. The red color hides splatters of blood from the audience during the finale stabbing.



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Bullfighting conjures a common image: An angry bull charging at a matador's small red cape, the muleta. Bulls, along with all other cattle, are color-blind to red. In support of this is the fact that a bull charges the matador's other cape - the larger capote - with equal fury. Still don't believe it? In 2007, the Discovery Channel's MythBusters tested a live bull on color versus movement in three separate experiments.

First, they put three stationary flags, which were red, blue and white, in the bull's enclosure. The bull charged all three flags regardless of color. The bull went after the moving cowboys and left the motionless red-clad person alone. If a bull can't see red, why is the muleta red? The small cape comes out in the last stage of the bullfight, when the bull meets its end, and its color helps mask one of the more gruesome aspects of a bull fight: splatters of the animal's blood.

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